Tokyo Story 1953

Release date

11/03/1953

Directors

Shōhei Imamura, Yasujirō Ozu

Writers

Yasujirō Ozu, Kōgo Noda

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.

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