Tokyo Story
is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama, about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children.
Plot
Retired couple Shūkichi and Tomi Hirayama live in Onomichi in western Japan with their daughter Kyōko, a primary school teacher. They have five adult children, four of whom are living. The couple travel to Tokyo to visit their son, daughter, and widowed daughter-in-law.
More details
| author | Kōgo Noda Yasujirō Ozu |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Atami Japan Tokyo Ueno Imperial Grant Park |
| director | Yasujirō Ozu |
| editor | Yoshiyasu Hamamura |
| events | old age |
| genre | drama social |
| keywords | adult children elderly couple even haruko sugimura hot spring hot spring spa meet missing husband missing in action office job old friends onomichi onsen osaka pacific war presumed dead primary school retired couple school teacher sibling sightsee so yamamura spring than the unexplained want widow |
| musicBy | Takanobu Saitō |
| producer | Takeshi Yamamoto |
| productionCompany | Shochiku |
| publisher | Shochiku |
| recordedAt | Japan |
| theme | death japanese |