Tokyo Story
As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.
Synopsis:
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.
Original title
Tokyo Story
Director
Shōhei Imamura, Yasujirō Ozu
Stars
Chieko Higashiyama, Chishū Ryū, Eijirō Tōno, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyôko Kagawa, Nobuo Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Shirô Ôsaka, Sô Yamamura
Release Date
13 Mar 1972
Rated
Not Rated
Runtime
136 min
Awards
3 wins.
Country
Japan
Popularity
8.408
Status
Released
ID IMDb.com
tt0046438
IMDB Rating
8.2
IMDB votes
43,362
ID Themoviedb.org
18148
TMDb Rating
8.3
TMDb votes
349