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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.
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03/11/1953
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Chishū Ryū
Shukichi Hirayama
Chieko Higashiyama
Tomi Hirayama
Setsuko Hara
Noriko Hirayama
Haruko Sugimura
Shige Kaneko
So Yamamura
Koichi Hirayama
Kuniko Miyake
Fumiko Hirayama
Kyōko Kagawa
Kyoko Hirayama
Eijirō Tōno
Numata
Nobuo Nakamura
Kurazo Kaneko
Shirō Ōsaka
Keizo Hirayama
Hisao Toake
Osamu Hattori
Teruko Nagaoka
Yone Hattori
Mutsuko Sakura
Oden Restaurant Woman
Toyo Takahashi
Woman Next Door
Tōru Abe
Railway Staff
Sachiko Mitani
Apartment Owner
Ryōko Mizuki
Beauty Salon Customer
Keijirō Morozumi
Policeman
Shozo Suzuki
Office Worker
Haruko Chichibu
Inn Maid
Takashi Miki
Tuyautashi
Toshinosuke Nagao
Doctor
Zen Murase
Minoru Hirayama
Mitsuhiro Môri
Isamu Hirayama
Yoshiko Togawa
Hospital Patient
Fumio Tooyama
Inspired Man
Tomoka Hasebe
Mahjong Player
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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 nev…
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