

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

Chishū Ryū
Shukichi Hirayama

Chieko Higashiyama
Tomi Hirayama

Setsuko Hara
Noriko Hirayama

Haruko Sugimura
Shige Kaneko

So Yamamura
Koichi Hirayama

Kuniko Miyake
Fumiko Hirayama

Kyōko Kagawa
Kyoko Hirayama

Eijirō Tōno
Numata

Nobuo Nakamura
Kurazo Kaneko

Shirō Ōsaka
Keizo Hirayama

Hisao Toake
Osamu Hattori

Teruko Nagaoka
Yone Hattori

Mutsuko Sakura
Oden Restaurant Woman

Toyo Takahashi
Woman Next Door

Tōru Abe
Railway Staff
Videos
Storyline
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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