Film

Tokyo Story

1953 · 2h 17m · Drama

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

IMDb

8.1

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

Metacritic

100

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.

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

Sachiko Mitani

Apartment Owner

• Yasujirō OzuDirector · Screenplay
• Kōgo NodaScreenplay
• Takeshi YamamotoProducer
• Yûharu AtsutaDirector of Photography
• Takanobu SaitōOriginal Music Composer
• Yoshiyasu HamamuraEditor

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

Release date

November 3, 1953

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 17m

Rated

10

Genres

Drama

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