Tokyo Story (1953)
東京物語
As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.
1953-11-03 · Drama · 137 min
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
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.
Cast
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Chishū Ryū
Shukichi Hirayama
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Chieko Higashiyama
Tomi Hirayama
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Setsuko Hara
Noriko Hirayama
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Haruko Sugimura
Shige Kaneko
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So Yamamura
Koichi Hirayama
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Kuniko Miyake
Fumiko Hirayama
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Kyōko Kagawa
Kyoko Hirayama
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Eijirō Tōno
Numata
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Nobuo Nakamura
Kurazo Kaneko
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Shirō Ōsaka
Keizo Hirayama
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Hisao Toake
Osamu Hattori
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Teruko Nagaoka
Yone Hattori
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Mutsuko Sakura
Oden Restaurant Woman
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Toyo Takahashi
Woman Next Door
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Tōru Abe
Railway Staff
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Sachiko Mitani
Apartment Owner
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Ryōko Mizuki
Beauty Salon Customer
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Keijirō Morozumi
Policeman
- Shozo Suzuki Office Worker
- Haruko Chichibu Inn Maid
Crew
- Director
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Director of Photography
- Yûharu Atsuta
- Editor
- Yoshiyasu Hamamura
- Original Music Composer
- Takanobu Saitō
- Producer
- Takeshi Yamamoto
- Screenplay
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Screenplay
- Kōgo Noda
Details
- IMDb
- tt0046438
- TMDB
- 18148
Keywords
Videos
- Clip Clip
- Lindsay Anderson on Tokyo Story Featurette
- Mark Kermode reviews Tokyo Story | BFI Player Featurette
- Tokyo Story | Critics' Picks | The New York Times Featurette
- BFI Re-Release Trailer [Subtitled] Trailer
- Tokyo Story (1953) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers Trailer
- Tokyo Story - Official Trailer Trailer
Reviews
CinemaSerf · ★ 7 · 2023-07-26
An elderly couple leave their small fishing village to travel to Tokyo to visit their children and grandchildren. Armed with a small packed lunch and the most perfectly packed suitcase you will ever see, they embark on their train journey to the metropolis. Once there they discover that though they are welcome enough, their paediatrician son "Koichi" (Sô Yamamura) and his beautician sister "Shige" (Haruko Sugimura) are pretty much caught up in their own lives and have little time to spend with their parents. In a land where duty is everything, this film depicts the rather unfeeling, though never callous, way in which the elderly pair are bundled from pillar to post, to a spa populated by youngsters and ultimately into the care of their widowed daughter-in-law "Noriko" (Setsuko Hara) who makes time to look after and try to entertain them. The film takes it's time. The delicate performances from the older couple are a joy to watch, especially once he "Shukichi" (Chishû Ryû) has had some saki with his friends; and she "Tomi" (Chieko Higashiyama) is superb as the long suffering, kindly, wife who has a stoicism that is both entertaining and laudable. It all comes to an head in quite a sadly poignant fashion, allowing the brief appearance of their other son "Keiso" (Shirô Ôsaka) for a conclusion that is both depressing and yet oddly fitting. This is beautifully crafted observation of changing family dynamics, or priorities and of, well, just taking people for granted.
tmdb47633491 · ★ 6 · 2018-04-21
A necessary film, in the way that vegetables are necessary.
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