Tokyo Story

"Toru Abe - a railway employee"

"So Yamamura - Kōichi Hirayama"

"Kuniko Miyake - Fumiko Hirayama"

"Kyōko Kagawa - Kyōko Hirayama"

"Eijirō Tōno - Sanpei Numata"

"Nobuo Nakamura - Kurazō Kaneko"

"Shirō Ōsaka - Keizō Hirayama"

"Hisao Toake - Osamu Hattori"

"Teruko Nagaoka - Yone Hattori"

"Mutsuko Sakura - a patron of the Oden Restaurant"

"Toyo Takahashi - Shūkichi Hirayama's neighbour"

"Chishū Ryū - Shūkichi Hirayama"

"Chieko Higashiyama - Tomi Hirayama"

"Setsuko Hara - Noriko Hirayama"

"Haruko Sugimura - Shige Kaneko"

"[to Tomi about leaving the hotel early] Anyway, this place is meant for the younger generation."

"Until I came up to Tokyo, I was under the impression that my son was doing better. But I've found that he is only a small neighborhood doctor. I know how you feel. I'm as dissatisfied as you are. But we can't expect too much from our children. Times have changed. We have to face it. That's what I think."

"[to her grandson Isamu] What are you going to be when you grow up? A doctor like your father? [Isamu doesn't answer and continues to pick grass] By the time you become a doctor, I wonder if I'll still be here."

"What a treat to sleep in my dead son's bed."

"[at dinner table following Tomi's funeral] Kyoko, did mother still have her summer sash? I'd like it for a keepsake. Is that alright with you? And that linen kimono she used to wear in summer? I want that too. You know where it is? Can you get it out?"

"Sometimes I feel I can't go on like this forever. Often I wonder, when I can't sleep, what will become of me if I stay this way. Day passes and night comes, yet nothing happens, and I feel a kind of loneliness. My heart seems to be waiting for something."

"Sanpei Numata: I'm afraid we expect too much of our children. They lack spirit. They lack ambition. I've told that to my son. He said that there are too many people in Tokyo. That it's hard to get ahead. What do you think? Young people today have no backbone. Where is there spirit? That's not how I raised him!"

"As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief."

"In the daily lives of ordinary people, a sense of deep affection wells up."

"But if I had known things would come to this, I'd have been kinder to her while she was alive."