- Title: Tokyo Story
- Original Title: 東京物語
- Release Date: 03/11/1953
- Tagline: As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.
- Duration:137 Min / 02:17
- Country:JP
- Genre:Drama
About Film
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.
Movie Rating: 8.2
Total Votes: 1160
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tmdb47633491
6/10
A necessary film, in the way that vegetables are necessary.
Geronimo1967
7/10
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...
