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Tokyo Story (1953)
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
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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.
Length 137 minutes
Actors
Chishū Ryū | Chieko Higashiyama | Setsuko Hara | Haruko Sugimura | Sô Yamamura | Kuniko Miyake | Kyôko Kagawa | Eijirô Tôno | Nobuo Nakamura | Shirô Ôsaka | Hisao Toake | Teruko Nagaoka | Mutsuko Sakura | Toyo Takahashi | Tôru Abe | Sachiko Mitani | Ryôko Mizuki | Keijirô Morozumi | Shozo Suzuki | Haruko Chichibu | Takashi Miki | Binnosuke Nagao | Zen Murase | Mitsuhiro Môri | Yoshiko Togawa | Fumio Tooyama | Tomoka Hasebe
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/10/2024 | Movie Screen | Film | Theater | 8 stars |
| (Average) 8 stars |
Viewing Notes
Awesome way to see this for the first time! Large crowd and totally silent ‘cept for the few chuckles at some of the humorous moments. Lots of sniffles too.
No surprise that Chishu Ryu is my most seen actor of this ensemble (28 films) but he’s so good here as a convincing elderly father when he was only 49yo at the time of release. His doctor son in the film is around that age.
Not to knock the great Ozu here but I don’t know how this elderly couple has a daughter so young. They say the mom is 68yo but Kyoko (the awesome Kyoko Kagawa) is no more than 24 or so. I mean I guess her mom could have had her at 44 but that seems so unlikely, especially in Japan at the time. I hate that I think of this shit during a movie.
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