Tokyo Story (1953)

Drama • PT2H17M

Tokyo Story

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.

Director: Yasujirō Ozu

Top Cast

  • 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

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