Tokyo Story

As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.

8.219532h 17mReleased

Drama

Overview

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

StatusReleased

Release Date1953-11-03

Runtime2h 17m

LanguagesEnglish日本語

CountriesJapan

Videos

7 total

Trailer

BFI Re-Release Trailer [Subtitled]

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Cast & Crew

Chishū Ryū

as Shukichi Hirayama

Chieko Higashiyama

as Tomi Hirayama

Setsuko Hara

as Noriko Hirayama

Haruko Sugimura

as Shige Kaneko

So Yamamura

as Koichi Hirayama

Kuniko Miyake

as Fumiko Hirayama

Kyōko Kagawa

as Kyoko Hirayama

Eijirō Tōno

as Numata

Nobuo Nakamura

as Kurazo Kaneko

Shirō Ōsaka

as Keizo Hirayama

Reviews

tmdb47633491

Apr 21, 2018

6/10

A necessary film, in the way that vegetables are necessary.

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CinemaSerf

Jul 26, 2023

7/10

An elderly couple leave their small fishing village to travel to Tokyo to visit their children and grandchildren. Armed with a small packed lunch and the most perfectly packed suitcase you will ever see, they embark on their train journey to the metropolis. Once there they discover that though they are welcome enough, their paediatrician son "Koich…

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