Tokyo Story

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.

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Top Cast

Chishū Ryū

As Shukichi Hirayama

Chieko Higashiyama

As Tomi Hirayama

Setsuko Hara

As Noriko Hirayama

Haruko Sugimura

As Shige Kaneko

So Yamamura

As Koichi Hirayama

Kuniko Miyake

As Fumiko Hirayama

Kyōko Kagawa

As Kyoko Hirayama

Eijirō Tōno

As Numata

Nobuo Nakamura

As Kurazo Kaneko

Shirō Ōsaka

As Keizo Hirayama

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