Tokyo Story

About 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 widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

Tokyo Story is a 1953 drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. Chishū Ryū stars as Shukichi Hirayama, Chieko Higashiyama as Tomi Hirayama, Setsuko Hara as Noriko Hirayama, and Haruko Sugimura as Shige Kaneko.

It runs 137 minutes and was released in November 1953. Written by Kōgo Noda and Yasujirō Ozu.

Members will find dreams, beach, baby, and baseball in it. It streams on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel in the United States. It scores 8.2 out of 10 from 1,281 TMDB voters.

The Hunt, Inside Out, and Bad Teacher make useful companions to Tokyo Story, all filed under lie, parent child relationship, and psychological drama.