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Gong: Why don't you go home?
Mother: Are you homesick?
Gong: It's you who misses home.

After returning to the beauty salon, I found out that it was not the right time to come back
. My husband smiled and said: I am finally homeless.

Gong: Tokyo is really big.
Granny: Yes, if you accidentally get separated, you probably won't see each other for the rest of your life.
Gong: Hmm.
Then the two continued to walk forward, with the railway beside them and the sky above their heads.

Three old friends drinking. sighed his own son.
Really sad.
When talking about the desire to be a parent, he said, "But the desire is endless... Maybe there are too many people in Tokyo." The

second old man returned to Noriko's house after a tiring day, and the
mother said, "Today is really long. I went again. Atami, went to Fan's house again, and went to the park again."
The voice was out of breath, but he didn't say he was tired, and he didn't complain at all.

When it comes to her daughter-in-law's remarriage, her mother-in-law said, "We are also sad for you."
The whole film is so sad. For the first time, she said that she was sad, but it was for others.

Mother-in-law: But when you are old, you will definitely be lonely. Wife -in
-law: I will not let myself grow old. (laughs)
Loneliness is talking about my daughter-in-law, but also about myself.

Husband is always silent, uh,

parents are discussing a few children
: It’s always difficult to get what people want,
but in the end he said: We are very happy like this.

Son Fan actually said something after hearing the news that his mother was critically ill. : Then we have to go there.
Then there is another sentence: must go?

Sister: Do you want to bring mourning clothes?
Brother: Take it.
Sister: It's best if you don't use it.
So talking about mother's death

after son's diagnosis says mom may not live tomorrow.
The old man just bowed his head in silence, and then said, "Really?" She can't.
That's it. Then silence.

After the death of the mother, no one could find the father. Noriko went out to look for it, and saw the old father stooping slightly and facing the east. After seeing Noriko coming, he said: The sunrise is really beautiful.

Youngest daughter Jingzi: This world is too frustrating.
Noriko: Yes.
He didn't deny or do some unnecessary comfort, just said calmly, yes, it's so discouraging, that's the nature of the world.

After her mother-in-law passed away, when Ji Zi was talking with her father-in-law, the father-in-law said to Ji Zi: If you continue like this, I will be very sad.
Just like what the old woman said, she was always an old man who was sad for others and almost cried.

The old man at the end sat alone in the room, swinging his fan, looking out the window with a calm expression as always, calm and lonely. Ordinary people's stories, like ordinary people's lives, have no climax and ending. It is because of this that it is even more sad, because imagine that in the countless houses in the world, there are also countless such lonely old people looking out of focus. This is really discouraging.

And this is unavoidable. Noriko explained to Kyoko that the older brothers and sisters are not selfish, but that when children grow up, they will stay away from their parents and enter their own lives. It will become like that in the future. This sentence suddenly woke me up. The essence of many practical problems is here. After all, everyone is an independent individual. This is a natural problem with no right or wrong, only choices.

Is there any way to solve this problem? To stay with your parents forever, to start a family and live very close to your parents? Not to mention the personal aspirations of the children, if the parents lived in the countryside like the parents in the film and stayed in a small place, would their children be happy again?

The relationship between big family and small family, individual freedom and the maintenance of family relationship. Such an unsolvable problem, such a tragic fatality, is disheartening.

The younger daughter sighed, this life is really disheartening, and Noriko nodded and said, yes, there are too many unsatisfactory things. A lingering tragic color.


The whole play bowed 10,000 times and said 10,000 sentences, so you dropped your trousers.

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Tokyo Story quotes

  • Sanpei Numata: I often wish at least one of my sons were alive.

    Osamu Hattori: Must have been hard to lose both of them.

    [to Shukichi]

    Osamu Hattori: Didn't you lose one?

    Shukichi Hirayama: Yes, my second son.

    Osamu Hattori: I've had enough of war.

    Shukichi Hirayama: Yes, indeed. To lose your children is hard, but living with them isn't always easy either. A real dilemma.

  • 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!