Tokyo Story
As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.
Videos
Cast and Crew
Chishū Ryū
Shukichi Hirayama
Chieko Higashiyama
Tomi Hirayama
Setsuko Hara
Noriko Hirayama
Haruko Sugimura
Shige Kaneko
Sō Yamamura
Koichi Hirayama
Kuniko Miyake
Fumiko Hirayama
Kyōko Kagawa
Kyoko Hirayama
Eijirō Tōno
Numata
Nobuo Nakamura
Kurazo Kaneko
Shirō Ōsaka
Keizo Hirayama
Yasujirō Ozu
Director
Yûharu Atsuta
Director of Photography
Takanobu Saitō
Original Music Composer
Takeshi Yamamoto
Producer
Tatsuo Hamada
Production Design
Yoshiyasu Hamamura
Editor
Taizô Saitô
Costume Design
Tatsuo Hamada
Art Direction
Takashi Kawamata
Assistant Camera
Ryûji Hayashi
Film Processor
Tokyo Story
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.
Orignal Title
東京物語
Orignal Language
ja
Duration
137 minutes
Genre
Drama
Status
Released
Release Data
1953-11-03
Production Companies
Shochiku
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