Chishū Ryū
Shukichi Hirayama
Tokyo Story (1953)
"As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief."
82%
User
Score
Score
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.
Top Billed Cast
Chieko Higashiyama
Tomi Hirayama
Setsuko Hara
Noriko Hirayama
Haruko Sugimura
Shige Kaneko
So Yamamura
Koichi Hirayama
Kuniko Miyake
Fumiko Hirayama
Kyōko Kagawa
Kyoko Hirayama
Eijirō Tōno
Numata
Nobuo Nakamura
Kurazo Kaneko
Shirō Ōsaka
Keizo Hirayama
Hisao Toake
Osamu Hattori
Teruko Nagaoka
Yone Hattori
Mutsuko Sakura
Oden Restaurant Woman
Toyo Takahashi
Woman Next Door
Tōru Abe
Railway Staff
![BFI Re-Release Trailer [Subtitled]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xqO0d3328Do/hqdefault.jpg)
Recommendations
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
Madadayo
1993
From Up on Poppy Hill
2011
Late Spring
1949
The Garden of Words
2013
Monster
2023
Equinox Flower
1958
Her Love Boils Bathwater
2016
Lost in Translation
2003
After the Storm
2016
April Story
1998
The Bad Sleep Well
1960
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
Bunny Drop
2011
Good Morning
1959