Tokyo Story

Year: 1953

Runtime: 137 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Yasujirô Ozu

Drama

The film follows elderly Shukishi and his wife Tomi as they travel from their modest seaside village to Tokyo to see their adult children. Their son Koichi, a doctor, and daughter Shige, a hairdresser, are too busy for their parents, leaving the caring widow Noriko—who lost her husband, the couple’s younger son, in the war—to spend time with them. Through their visit, the story quietly examines the joys and sorrows that arise in parent‑child relationships as life continues.

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