Tokyo Story

Name: Tokyo Story
Genre: Drama
Released: 1953-11-03
Duration: 137 min
Rating: 8.2
Cast: Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura

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

8.2(1,180 votes)

2h 17m

November 3, 1953

Drama

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.