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Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story (1953)

03/13/1972 (US)
02h 17m

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

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.

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Chishū Ryū

Chishū Ryū

Shukichi Hirayama

Chieko Higashiyama

Chieko Higashiyama

Tomi Hirayama

Setsuko Hara

Setsuko Hara

Noriko Hirayama

Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura

Shige Kaneko

Sō Yamamura

Sō Yamamura

Koichi Hirayama

Kuniko Miyake

Kuniko Miyake

Fumiko Hirayama

Kyōko Kagawa

Kyōko Kagawa

Kyoko Hirayama

Nobuo Nakamura

Nobuo Nakamura

Kurazo Kaneko

Media

BFI Re-Release Trailer [Subtitled]
Tokyo Story (1953) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers
Tokyo Story - Official Trailer
Clip
Lindsay Anderson on Tokyo Story

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