Directed by Yasujiro Ozu
Screenplay by Takako Noda/Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Tomo Kasa/Setsuko Hara/Haruko Sugimura/Eiko Higashiyama/Satoshi Yamamura
Genre: Drama/Family
Production country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Release date: 1953-11-03(Japan)
Running time: 136 minutes
Synopsis of the Story of Tokyo
The children have grown up and have their own families. Father Zhou Ji (Li Zhi Zhong is acted the role of) and his wife (Higashiyama Chiono is acted the role of) to go to Tokyo to visit them, the old couple with a happy mood on the road. But on the other side, before they arrived at the eldest son’s house, the grandson cried and cried because his grandparents arrived. The old man begins to feel embarrassed, the eldest son Koichi (Satoshi Yamamura) is a doctor in Tokyo, the second daughter Shigami (Haruko Sugimura) runs a beauty shop in Tokyo, the second daughter-in-law Kiko (Setsuko Hara), the younger daughter Kyoko (Kagawa Kyoko), and the third son Keizo in Osaka.
Tokyo is strange to the elderly, and it is not much better in the children’s home. The eldest son is busy with work and has no time to take them out to play. Moved to her daughter’s house, still daily trapped and conflicted. The old couple gradually realized the situation of their children, and their old friends in Tokyo were also not doing well. Only the widowed daughter-in-law, Ji Zi, was very filial to the old man. Then the old man set foot on the way home, before and after ten days…