70th Anniversary Screening - Original Japanese version with English subtitles (no more shows planned at the moment)
Poster
Director
Yasujirō Ozu
Cast
Chishū Ryū (Shukishi Hirayama), Chieko Higashiyama (Tomi Hirayama), Setsuko Hara (Noriko Hirayama), Haruko Sugimura (Shige Kaneko), Sō Yamamura (Koichi Hirayama), Kuniko Miyake (Fumiko Hirayama), Kyōko Kagawa (Kyôko Hirayama), Eijirō Tōno (Sanpei Numata), Nobuo Nakamura (Kurazo Kaneko)
Plot Outline
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.
Genre
Drama
Runtime
136 minutes
Production country
JP
Released
1953