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.

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

Kuniko Miyake
as Fumiko Hirayama

Kyōko Kagawa
as Kyoko Hirayama

Eijirō Tōno
as Numata

Nobuo Nakamura
as Kurazo Kaneko

Shirō Ōsaka
as Keizo Hirayama
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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 ...