FILM

Tokyo Story (1953)

Name: Tokyo Story
Director: Yasujirō Ozu
Genre: Drama
Released: 1953-11-03
Cast: Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura

Film · 1953 · 137 min · Drama

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.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Starring Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyōko Kagawa, Eijirō Tōno

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Release dates in the United States

In cinemas	13 March 1972
Digital release	Not listed
Physical release	Not listed
First release anywhere	3 November 1953

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