Tokyo Story

1953 Yasujirō Ozu 2h 17m ★ 8.2
Drama
Tokyo Story

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 w

Cast

Chishū Ryū Chishū Ryū Shukichi Hirayama
Chieko Higashiyama Chieko Higashiyama Tomi Hirayama
Setsuko Hara Setsuko Hara Noriko Hirayama
Haruko Sugimura Haruko Sugimura Shige Kaneko
So Yamamura So Yamamura Koichi Hirayama
Kuniko Miyake Kuniko Miyake Fumiko Hirayama
Kyōko Kagawa Kyōko Kagawa Kyoko Hirayama
Eijirō Tōno Eijirō Tōno Numata

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Double Feature Pairings

Films that pair perfectly with Tokyo Story

Yi Yi
Yi Yi 2000
Asian family dramas across eras. Two films about the quiet sadness of families who love each other but cannot say it. Make Way for Tomorrow
Make Way for Tomorrow 1937
Parents abandoned by their children. Two films so devastating about family neglect that Ozu said he stole from McCarey.