Story Line
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.
“As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.”
Top Cast
Chishū Ryū
Shukichi Hirayama
Chieko Higashiyama
Tomi Hirayama
Setsuko Hara
Noriko Hirayama
Haruko Sugimura
Shige Kaneko
So Yamamura
Koichi Hirayama
Kuniko Miyake
Fumiko Hirayama
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Rating
8.2/ 10
Release Date
1953-11-03
Runtime
2h 17m
Genres
Drama
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User Reviews (2)
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6/10
•4/21/2018A necessary film, in the way that vegetables are necessary.
CinemaSerf
7/10
•7/26/2023An 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 metr...