Release, runtime and language

1953 · 137 mins · Japanese

Directed by

Yasujirô Ozu

Starring

Kyôko Kagawa, Eijirô Tôno, Chieko Higashiyama, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake

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.