Tokyo Story
is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama. It tells the story of an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children. The film contrasts the behavior of their children, who are too busy to pay them much attention, with that of their widowed daughter-in-law, who treats them with kindness.
Plot
A retired couple, Shūkichi and Tomi Hirayama (played by Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama), live in the town Onomichi in western Japan with their daughter Kyōko (played by Kyōko Kagawa), who is 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 | Japan |
| director | Yasujirō Ozu |
| editor | Yoshiyasu Hamamura |
| events | old age |
| genre | drama social |
| keywords | adult children atami elderly couple end even haruko sugimura hot spring hot spring spa internal medicine meet missing in action office job old friends onsen osaka pacific war pass physician presumed dead retired couple sibling sightsee so yamamura spring than the tokyo unexplained want widow |
| musicBy | Kojun Saitō |
| producer | Takeshi Yamamoto |
| productionCompany | Shochiku |
| recordedAt | Japan |
| theme | death japanese |