Tokyo Story

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.

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Gurinder Chadha
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Joanna Hogg
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Credits
DirectorYasujiro Ozu
CastChishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura
CountryJapan
Year1953
 

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