Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story , Tky Monogatari? is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujir Ozu. It tells the story of an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children. The film contrasts the behavior of their children, who are too busy to pay them much attention, and their widowed daughterinlaw, who treats them with kindness. It is widely regarded as Ozus masterpiece and is often cited as one of the greatest films ever made.

Their eldest son, Kichi So Yamamura, is a pediatrician married to Fumiko. Kichi and Fumiko have two sons, Minoru and Isamu. Shkichi and Tomis eldest daughter, Shige Haruko Sugimura, is married to Kuraz. Shige runs a hairdressing salon. Kichi and Shige are both busy with work and their families, and do not have much time for their parents. Only the couples widowed daughterinlaw, Noriko Setsuko Hara, goes out of her way to entertain them. She takes Shkichi and Tomi on a sightseeing tour of metropolitan Tokyo.Kichi and Shige pay for their parents stay at a hot spring spa at Atami, but the parents return early because the nightlife at the hotel interrupts their sleep. When they return, Shige explains that she sent them to Atami because she wanted to use their bedroom for a meeting. Tomi goes to stay with Noriko, whose husband, Shji, died eight years ago in the war. Tomi advises Noriko to remarry. Shkichi, meanwhile, gets drunk with some old friends, then returns to Shiges salon. ........

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