CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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Tokyo Story posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1953 2h 17m JPN

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Tokyo Story

Drama
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME

Keep the feeling.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

A retired couple, Shūkichi and Tomi Hirayama (played by Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama), live in the town Onomichi, Hiroshima in southwest Japan with their daughter Kyōko (played by Kyōko Kagawa), who is a primary-school teacher. They have five adult children, four living. The couple travel to Tokyo to visit their son, daughter and widowed daughter-in-law.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Chishū Ryū

Chishū Ryū

Shūkichi Hirayama

Chieko Higashiyama

Tomi Hirayama

Setsuko Hara

Setsuko Hara

Noriko Hirayama

Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura

Shige Kaneko

Sō Yamamura

Sō Yamamura

Kōichi Hirayama

Kuniko Miyake

Kuniko Miyake

Fumiko Hirayama

Kyōko Kagawa

Kyōko Kagawa

Kyôko Hirayama

Eijirō Tōno

Eijirō Tōno

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