Tokyo Story

As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.

Sinopse

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.

8.2
1953
Released
2h 17m

Status

Released

Original Language

Keywords

#fish
#beach
#dreams
#baby
#coma
#parent child relationship
#peace
#boat
#cake
#office
#baseball
#classroom
#class
#lantern
#lie
#marriage
#tea
#ambition
#retirement
#swing
#family relationships
#teacher
#old man
#honor
#school
#tokyo, japan
#black and white
#complicated relationships
#interpersonal relationships
#shōwa era (1926-89)
#shitamachi

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Reviews

@Geronimo1967over 2 years ago

An elderly couple leave their small fishing village to travel to Tokyo to visit their children and grandchildren. Armed with a small packed lunch and the most perfectly packed suitcase you will ever see, they embark on their train journey to the metropolis. Once there they discover that though they are welcome enough, their paediatrician son "Koichi" (Sô Yamamura) and his beautician sister "Shige"

@tmdb47633491over 7 years ago

A necessary film, in the way that vegetables are necessary.