Tokyo Story

Plot Summary

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 Cast

Chishū Ryū Shukichi Hirayama

Chieko Higashiyama Tomi Hirayama

Setsuko Hara Noriko Hirayama

Haruko Sugimura Shige Kaneko

So Yamamura Koichi Hirayama