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Tokyo Story

Release Date:March 13, 1972

Running Time:137 min

Genres:Drama

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Cast

Chishū Ryū Chieko Higashiyama Setsuko Hara Haruko Sugimura So Yamamura Kuniko Miyake Kyōko Kagawa Eijirō Tōno Nobuo Nakamura Shirō Ōsaka Hisao Toake Teruko Nagaoka

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Synopsis

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.

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