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In this film director Yoji Yamada bows down before his teacher and role model. Yamada was assistant director on Yazujirō Ozu’s Tōkyō monogatari, a moving family portrait set after the Second World War. In his remake, Yamada has made very few departures from Ozu’s masterpiece in order to update the story of ageing couple Shukichi and Tomiko to present day Japan. Once again, the pair decides to leave their quiet lives in the country to pay a visit to their children and grandchildren in Tokyo. Once there, they discover that neither their oldest son, a doctor named Koichi, nor their eldest daughter Shigeko - who runs a beauty parlour - has time for them: both are too busy attending to their everyday concerns. Even the youngest son went his own way. The old couple feel lonely and bewildered in the fast-paced metropolis.
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Jun Fubuki
Kayo
Nenji Kobayashi
Sanpei Numata
Yui Natsukawa
Fumiko Hirayama
Satoshi Tsumabuki
Shuji Hirayama
Satoshi Tsumabuki
Shuji Hirayama
Yu Aoi
Noriko Mamiya
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Tomiko Hirayama
Isao Hashizume
Shukichi Hirayama
Masahiko Nishimura
Koichi Hirayama
Narumi Kayashima
Kyoko Hattori
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