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

Chieko Higashiyama

Setsuko Hara

Haruko Sugimura

So Yamamura

Kuniko Miyake

Kyōko Kagawa

Eijirō Tōno

Nobuo Nakamura

Shirō Ōsaka

Hisao Toake

Teruko Nagaoka