Chishū Ryū

Chieko Higashiyama

Setsuko Hara

Haruko Sugimura

Sō Yamamura

Kuniko Miyake

Kyōko Kagawa

Eijirō Tōno

Nobuo Nakamura

Shirō Ōsaka

Hisao Toake

Teruko Nagaoka

Mutsuko Sakura

Toyo Takahashi

Tōru Abe

Sachiko Mitani

Ryōko Mizuki

Keijirō Morozumi

Shozo Suzuki

Haruko Chichibu

Takashi Miki

Toshinosuke Nagao

Zen Murase

Mitsuhiro Môri

Yoshiko Togawa

Fumio Tooyama

Tomoka Hasebe

Yasujirō Ozu

Takeshi Yamamoto

Takanobu Saitō

Yûharu Atsuta

Yoshiyasu Hamamura

Tatsuo Hamada

Taizô Saitô

Ryûji Hayashi

Osamu Takahashi

Kouzou Yamamoto

Setsutarô Moriya

Toshio Takahashi

Takashi Kawamata

Itsuo Takashita

Tomiji Shimizu

Shōhei Imamura

Mitsuru Kaneko

Yoshiomi Hori

Yoshisaburo Seno

Kōgo Noda

Drama

東京物語

Shochiku

Japan

English

日本語

Tokyo Story

fish

beach

dreams

baby

coma

parent child relationship

peace

boat

cake

office

baseball

classroom

class

lantern

marriage

ambition

retirement

swing

family relationships

teacher

old man

honor

school

tokyo, japan

black and white

criterion

complicated relationships

interpersonal relationships

shōwa era (1926-89)

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 discover that though they are welcome enough - their son "Koichi" (Sô Yamamura) - a paediatrician, and his beautician sister "Shige" (Haruko Sugimura) are pretty much caught up in their own lives and have little time to spend with their parents. In a land where duty is everything, this film depicts the rather unfeeling, though never callous, way in which the elderly pair are bundled from pillar to post, to a spa populated by youngsters and ultimately into the care of their widowed daughter-in-law "Noriko" (Setsuko Hara) who makes time to look after and try to entertain them. The film takes it's time. The delicate performances from the older couple are a joy to watch, especially once he "Shukichi" (Chishû Ryû) has had some saki with his friends; and she "Tomi" (Chieko Higashiyama) is superb as the long suffering, kindly wife who has a stoicism that is both entertaining and laudable. It all comes to an head in quite a sadly poignant fashion, allowing the brief appearance of their other son "Keiso" (Shirô Ôsaka) for a conclusion that is both depressing and yet oddly fitting. This is beautifully crafted observation of changing family dynamics, or priorities and of, well, just taking people for granted.

Tokyo Story( 1953)

As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.

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A review by tmdb47633491

Written by tmdb47633491 on Sat Apr 21 2018

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