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03/11/1953 Drama 2h 17m
81
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As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.

Overview

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.

  1. Yasujirō Ozu

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Chishū Ryū

    Shukichi Hirayama

  2. Chieko Higashiyama

    Tomi Hirayama

  3. Setsuko Hara

    Noriko Hirayama

  4. Haruko Sugimura

    Shige Kaneko

  5. So Yamamura

    Koichi Hirayama

  6. Kuniko Miyake

    Fumiko Hirayama

  7. Kyōko Kagawa

    Kyoko Hirayama

  8. Eijirō Tōno

    Numata

  9. Nobuo Nakamura

    Kurazo Kaneko

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-07-26
An elderly couple leave their small fishing village to travel to Tokyo to visit their children and grandchildren. Armed with a small packed lunch and the most perfectly packed suitcase you will ever see, they embark on their train journey to the metropolis. Once there they discover that though they are welcome enough, their paediatrician son "Koichi" (Sô Yamamura) and his beautician sister "Shige" (Haruko Sugimura) are pretty much caught up in their own lives and have little time to spend with their parents. In a land where duty is everything, this film depicts the rather unfeeling, though ne...read the rest
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Recommendations

  1. コクリコ坂から75%
  2. 晩春80%
  3. 天国と地獄83%
  4. 誰も知らない79%
  5. 秋刀魚の味79%
  6. ルックバック81%
  7. 湯を沸かすほどの熱い愛74%
  8. 悪は存在しない68%
  9. 君たちはどう生きるか73%
  10. 生きる83%
  11. Dad63%
  12. Detachment76%
  13. 思い出のマーニー79%
  14. Starving in Suburbia65%
  15. 夢77%
  16. Interiors68%
  17. 人間の條件　第１部純愛篇／第２部激怒篇81%
  18. The Sea of Trees61%
  19. そして父になる77%
  20. Dead Poets Society82%

Status
Released

Original Language
Japanese

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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