Episode #36 – Tokyo Story (東京物語)
Tokyo Story (1954)
東京物語 [Tôkyô Monogatari]
Directed by Yasujirô Ozu
Written by Yasujirô Ozu and Kôgo Noda
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.
Cast
Chishû Ryû – Shukishi Hirayama
Chieko Higashiyama – Tomi Hirayama
Setsuko Hara – Noriko Hirayama
Haruko Sugimura – Shige Kaneko
Sô Yamamura – Koichi Hirayama
Kuniko Miyake – Fumiko Hirayama
Kyôko Kagawa – Kyôko Hirayama
