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東京物語

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Tokyo Story

Chishū Ryū

Chieko Higashiyama

Setsuko Hara

Haruko Sugimura

So Yamamura

Kuniko Miyake

Kyōko Kagawa

Eijirō Tōno

Nobuo Nakamura

Shirō Ōsaka

Hisao Toake

Teruko Nagaoka

Mutsuko Sakura

Toyo Takahashi

Tōru Abe

Sachiko Mitani

Ryōko Mizuki

Keijirō Morozumi

Shozo Suzuki

Haruko Chichibu

Takashi Miki

Toshinosuke Nagao

Zen Murase

Mitsuhiro Môri

Yoshiko Togawa

Fumio Tooyama

Tomoka Hasebe

Yasujirō Ozu

Tatsuo Hamada

Takanobu Saitō

Taizô Saitô

Yoshiyasu Hamamura

Takeshi Yamamoto

Yûharu Atsuta

Itsuo Takashita

Ryûji Hayashi

Toshio Takahashi

Tomiji Shimizu

Setsutarô Moriya

Takashi Kawamata

Shōhei Imamura

Yoshiomi Hori

Mitsuru Kaneko

Yoshisaburo Seno

Kōgo Noda

Kôzô Yamamoto

Osamu Takahashi

A necessary film, in the way that vegetables are necessary.

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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 never callous, way in which the elderly pair are bundled from pillar to post, to a spa populated by youngsters and ultimately into the care of their widowed daughter-in-law "Noriko" (Setsuko Hara) who makes time to look after and try to entertain them. The film takes it's time. The delicate performances from the older couple are a joy to watch, especially once he "Shukichi" (Chishû Ryû) has had some saki with his friends; and she "Tomi" (Chieko Higashiyama) is superb as the long suffering, kindly, wife who has a stoicism that is both entertaining and laudable. It all comes to an head in quite a sadly poignant fashion, allowing the brief appearance of their other son "Keiso" (Shirô Ôsaka) for a conclusion that is both depressing and yet oddly fitting. This is beautifully crafted observation of changing family dynamics, or priorities and of, well, just taking people for granted.

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Chishū Ryū

Chieko Higashiyama

Setsuko Hara

Haruko Sugimura

So Yamamura

Kuniko Miyake

Kyōko Kagawa

Eijirō Tōno

Nobuo Nakamura

Shirō Ōsaka

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