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Tokyo Story (1953)

Tokyo Story (1953)

Drama

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

Release Date: 1953, November 3
Directors: Yasujirō Ozu
Countries: Japan
Production: Shochiku
Cast: Eijirō Tōno, Kyōko Kagawa, Nobuo Nakamura, Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Shirō Ōsaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka

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.

Keywords:

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