Movies / Tokyo Story (1953) aka Tôkyô monogatari
Runtime: 136 min
Genres: Drama
Countries: Japan
'Tokyo Story' is a meditation on the generational gap and the trials of mortality. An elderly couple visits their children in a bustling Tokyo, where they are seen almost as a nuisance and shuffled off to a resort. Modernization is the torrent that tears through Japanese society, and this film takes a hard look at what it has done to the family unit.
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| Directors (1) | Credit |
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| Yasujirô Ozu | ... |
| Writers (2) | Credit |
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| Kôgo Noda | writer |
| Yasujirô Ozu | writer |
| Composers (1) | Credit |
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| Kojun Saitô | ... |
| Editors (1) | Credit |
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| Yoshiyasu Hamamura | ... |
| Cinematographers (1) | Credit |
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| Yûharu Atsuta | ... |
| Actors (29) | Credit |
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| Binnosuke Nagao | Doctor at Onomichi |
| Chieko Higashiyama | Tomi Hirayama |
| Chishû Ryû | Shukishi Hirayama |
| Eijirô Tôno | Sanpei Numata |
| Haruko Chichibu | Hotel maid |
| Haruko Sugimura | Shige Kaneko |
| Hisao Toake | Osamu Hattori |
| Junko Anan | Beauty Salon Assistant |
| Kazuhiro Itokawa | Student - guest at Hattori's house |
| Keijirô Morozumi | Police agent |
| Kuniko Miyake | Fumiko Hirayama - his wife |
| Kyôko Kagawa | Kyoko Hirayama |
| Mitsuhiro Mori | Isamu Hirayama - Koichi's son |
| Mutsuko Sakura | Patron of the Oden Restaurant |
| Nobuo Nakamura | Kurazo Kaneko |
| Ryôko Mizuki | Biyôin no kyaku |
| Sachiko Mitani | Noriko's Neighbor |
| Setsuko Hara | Noriko Hirayama |
| Shirô Osaka | Keiso Hirayama |
| Shozo Suzuki | Noriko's office colleague |
| Sô Yamamura | Koichi Hirayama |
| Takashi Miki | Singer |
| Teruko Nagaoka | Yone Hattori |
| Tôru Abe | Train employee |
| Toyo Takahashi | Shukichi Hirayama's Neighbor (as Toyoko Takahashi) |
| Tsutomu Nijima | Noriko's office boss |
| Yoshiko Tashiro | Hotel maid |
| Yoshiko Togawa | Beauty Salon Client |
| Zen Murase | Minoru Hirayama - Koichi's son |