Released:
1953-11-03

Overview:
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

Runtime:
2h 17min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Chishū Ryū
  as
  Shukichi Hirayama
• 
  Chieko Higashiyama
  as
  Tomi Hirayama
• 
  Setsuko Hara
  as
  Noriko Hirayama
• 
  Haruko Sugimura
  as
  Shige Kaneko
• 
  So Yamamura
  as
  Koichi Hirayama