An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality
Chieko Higashiyama , Chishû Ryû , Eijirô Tôno , Haruko Chichibu , Haruko Sugimura , Hisao Toake , Kuniko Miyake , Kyôko Kagawa , Mutsuko Sakura , Nobuo Nakamura , Sô Yamamura , Sachiko Mitani , Setsuko Hara , Shirô Osaka , Tôru Abe , Teruko Nagaoka , Toyo Takahashi
