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 Actors: Chieko Higashiyama, Chishū Ryū, Eijirō Tōno, Fumio Tooyama, Haruko Chichibu, Haruko Sugimura, Hisao Toake, Keijirō Morozumi, Kuniko Miyake, Kyōko Kagawa, Mitsuhiro Môri, Mutsuko Sakura, Nobuo Nakamura, Ryōko Mizuki, Sachiko Mitani, Setsuko Hara, Shirō Ōsaka, Shozo Suzuki, Sō Yamamura, Takashi Miki, Teruko Nagaoka, Tomoka Hasebe, Tōru Abe, Toshinosuke Nagao, Toyo Takahashi, Yoshiko Togawa, Zen Murase Directors: Yasujirō Ozu Production: Shochiku
