Project Author: David Mills
June 23, 2025
PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
Shochiku
Tokyo Story
As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.
Genre:
Drama
Runtime:
137
Released:
1953
Rating:
8.17
Budget:
Box Office:
WRITERS
Kōgo Noda, Yasujirō Ozu
FILM OVERVIEW
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.
DIRECTOR
Yasujirō Ozu
GALLERY
PRODUCTION TEAM
Yasujirō Ozu (Director)
Yûharu Atsuta (Director of Photography)
Takanobu Saitō (Original Music Composer)
Takeshi Yamamoto (Producer)
Tatsuo Hamada (Production Design)
Yoshiyasu Hamamura (Editor)
Taizô Saitô (Costume Design)
Tatsuo Hamada (Art Direction)
Takashi Kawamata (Assistant Camera)
Ryûji Hayashi (Film Processor)
CAST MEMBERS
Chishū Ryū
Chieko Higashiyama
Setsuko Hara
Haruko Sugimura
Sō Yamamura
Kuniko Miyake
Kyōko Kagawa
Eijirō Tōno
Nobuo Nakamura
Shirō Ōsaka
MORE PRODUCTION
Setsutarô Moriya (Set Dresser), Toshio Takahashi (Set Designer), Itsuo Takashita (Lighting Technician), Tomiji Shimizu (Script Supervisor), Mitsuru Kaneko (Sound Engineer), Yoshiomi Hori (Sound Assistant), Shōhei Imamura (Second Assistant Director), Yoshisaburo Seno (Sound Recordist), Kōgo Noda (Screenplay), Yasujirō Ozu (Screenplay), Kôzô Yamamoto (Assistant Director), Osamu Takahashi (Assistant Director)
MORE CAST
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