Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story (1953)

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

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1953-11-03
  • User Rating: 8.1/10 from 943 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 17min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Shochiku
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Yasujirō Ozu
star 8.2/10
From 943 Ratings
8.1

Summary

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.

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  • Chishū Ryū

    as Shukichi Hirayama
  • Chieko Higashiyama

    as Tomi Hirayama
  • Setsuko Hara

    as Noriko Hirayama
  • Haruko Sugimura

    as Shige Kaneko
  • Sō 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
  • Hisao Toake

    as Osamu Hattori
  • Teruko Nagaoka

    as Yone Hattori
  • Mutsuko Sakura

    as Oden Restaurant Woman
  • Toyo Takahashi

    as Woman Next Door
  • Tōru Abe

    as Railway Staff
  • Sachiko Mitani

    as Apartment Owner
  • Ryōko Mizuki

    as Beauty Salon Customer
  • Keijirō Morozumi

    as Policeman
  • Shozo Suzuki

    as Office Worker
  • Haruko Chichibu

    as Inn Maid
  • Takashi Miki

    as Tuyautashi
  • Toshinosuke Nagao

    as Doctor
  • Zen Murase

    as Minoru Hirayama
  • Mitsuhiro Môri

    as Isamu Hirayama
  • Yoshiko Togawa

    as Hospital Patient
  • Fumio Tooyama

    as Inspired Man
  • Tomoka Hasebe

    as Mahjong Player
Directing Shōhei Imamura Second Assistant Director
Writing Yasujirō Ozu Screenplay
Directing Yasujirō Ozu Director
Writing Kōgo Noda Screenplay
Camera Yûharu Atsuta Director of Photography
Editing Yoshiyasu Hamamura Editor
Art Tatsuo Hamada Production Design
Art Tatsuo Hamada Art Direction
Sound Yoshisaburo Seno Sound Recordist
Sound Takanobu Saitō Original Music Composer
Production Takeshi Yamamoto Producer
Costume & Make-Up Taizô Saitô Costume Design
Sound Mitsuru Kaneko Sound Engineer
Sound Yoshiomi Hori Sound Assistant

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