Tokyo monogatari

Tokyo Story (東京物語 Tokyo monogatari^?) is a 1953 Japanese movie by Yasujiro Ozu, in which elderly parents from the southwestern seaside town of Onomichi visit their busy children in Tokyo — a journey which, before the introduction of the bullet train, took almost a day — only to be neglected by them. It stars Setsuko Hara, one of Japan's (and the director's) favourite actresses, as their daughter-in-law. The children genuinely wish to spend time with their parents, and do, but as they have lives and families of their own they find it difficult to maintain a balance between the two.

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