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.| Original Title: | 東京物語 |
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| Status: | Released (1953-11-03) |
| Awards: | 3 wins total |
| Screen: | Kôgo Noda, Yasujirô Ozu |
| Productions: | Shochiku |
| Production Countries: | Japan |
| Spoken Languages: | English, 日本語 |
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Casts
- 33135: Chishū Ryū - Shukichi Hirayama
- 134307: Chieko Higashiyama - Tomi Hirayama
- 95504: Setsuko Hara - Noriko Hirayama
- 131013: Haruko Sugimura - Shige Kaneko
- 68411: Sō Yamamura - Koichi Hirayama
- 131016: Kuniko Miyake - Fumiko Hirayama
- 34374: Kyōko Kagawa - Kyoko Hirayama
Crews
- 95501: Yasujirō Ozu - Director - Directing
- 1115028: Takeshi Yamamoto - Producer - Production
- 993587: Takanobu Saitō - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 552001: Yûharu Atsuta - Director of Photography - Camera
- 552002: Yoshiyasu Hamamura - Editor - Editing
- 552003: Tatsuo Hamada - Production Design - Art
- 552003: Tatsuo Hamada - Art Direction - Art
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A necessary film, in the way that vegetables are necessary.
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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, though, they d ....
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