When I first arrived at the eldest son to respect the family, the daughter-in-law asked Jing what to prepare for dinner. Would you like to add some sashimi besides the meat? Jingyi said no, the meat is fine.
After dinner, the family sat chatting together, it was rare to get together. Jingyi didn't seem to have much to say to his parents. After sitting for a while, he asked his parents to go back to the room to rest.
After the lights were turned off, the two old men sat quietly on the sloping rice, with a melancholy face.
When I lived at my daughter Wenzi’s house, my son-in-law bought a box of cakes and gave them to the old man. He said it was delicious and let Wenzi taste one first. After Wenzi ate one, he complained, “It’s delicious, but it’s too expensive. You don’t need to give it to them. If you eat such expensive things, just give them biscuits.”
After spending a few days in Tokyo, the old man never had a chance to go out and see. The son and daughter seemed to be busy and had no time to take care of them. Fumiko felt "unfortunate" and called Kiko to help take the elderly out to play. Kiko readily accepted. She took a day off to accompany the two elderly people around Tokyo, and then invited them to her home for dinner.
Kiko is also the old man's daughter-in-law, but his husband has passed away for eight years. No matter what bitterness and pain he has experienced in these eight years, Kiko never mentions a word. She always smiles and treats both of them kindly. elder.
It's just that the close-up of her sweet smile that appears frequently makes people feel sad, as if the pain and struggle in her heart overflowed with the smile.
In order to reduce the trouble and spend less money, Keiichi and Wenzi pooled together money to let the two elderly people go to Atami Hot Springs on vacation, and booked a cheap room with a view for them.
In the guest room of Atami Hotel, the elderly enjoy the tranquil environment, drink tea and admire the beautiful scenery outside the window, and make an appointment to get up tomorrow morning and go for a walk on the beach.
It’s just that they didn’t expect that after nightfall, the hotel was full of laughter and laughter. In the corridors, inside and outside the house, young people gathered together to play mahjong, play the piano and sing. Only two old people lay in the dark and silently endured the things that did not belong to them. Hustle and bustle.
In the early morning, two lost and lonely back figures sat silently on the seawall. The old man knew that this was a suitable place for young people, and they decided to go back to Tokyo.
Wenzi looked dissatisfied when seeing her parents who came back suddenly, and blamed them for not coming back at the right time. She was going to hold a party at home in the evening. The old man looked at each other speechlessly, and reluctantly picked up his luggage and left Wenzi's home.
They planned to stay at Kiko's house for one night, but Kiko's house was too small to receive both of them at the same time, so the old father asked his wife to go alone and went to the server of the same town by himself, planning to stay at his home.
Obviously, Hattori didn’t want to take in Hirayama, so he invited him out for a drink and called another old friend from the same town. The three of them drank in the tavern and talked about their sons. They were all dissatisfied with their sons and their careers were not good. Considered a great achievement, but also indifferent to his father.
"Losing your child is very painful, but living together without knowing how to get along is really a dilemma."
I wanted to drink Hirayama all night, but because of a feint in a tavern, I was taken back to Wenzi's house with my friends by the police. He was very dissatisfied with his old father who came back drunk in the middle of the night, but he was helpless.
The old man was going home the next day. At the station, the old mother said to the children who came to see off. We won’t see each other again after this trip. We are too far away. Even if something happens to me in the future, you guys. No need to come back, everyone is so busy. At that moment, they didn't know that this would be the last conversation in their lives.
On the first day on the train, the old mother got off the train temporarily in Osaka because of illness, and asked his third son Keizo who worked in Osaka to take care of her. Jing San complained to his colleagues very dissatisfiedly, and he thought it was a troublesome matter.
The old mother felt contented to see all the children in just ten days, and she was unconscious after returning home.
Receiving a telegram from their mother who is critically ill, Keiichi and Fumiko brought their filial service and rushed to Onomichi that night. The old mother passed away in the morning the second day they arrived, and she hadn't woken up until then.
Fumiko asked Kiko and her younger sister Kyoko if they brought filial piety over here, and they answered no, Fumiko asked them to borrow a few sets quickly.
Jing San did not catch up to see his mother for the last time. At the funeral, he regretted that he hadn't treated his mother well. He ridiculed himself and said, "If your parents are not in the coffin, no one will take care of them." After the
funeral, Wen Zihe Keiichi talked casually about his mother who had just passed away at the dinner table, and laughed about the past. The old father accidentally mentioned that their mother was dizzy when she was in Atami. Wenzi looked surprised. She thought that her father should speak earlier, at least with her eldest brother who is a doctor. Jingyi said that her mother got sick because she was too fat, and it had nothing to do with this.
Then Fumiko asked Kyoko to bring her mother’s best linen kimono to her. She wanted to take it back to Tokyo as a souvenir. Then Keiichi and Keiichi rushed back to Tokyo on the express that night. Keizo also left. Only Kyoko and Noriko stayed for a few more days to help. Clean up the funeral and accompany the elderly father.
Kyoko couldn't understand what her brother and sister had done, and complained to Kiko.
Kyoko: Brothers and sisters should stay a few more days.
Noriko: Everyone is very busy.
Kyoko: But this is too selfish. Just take care of yourself and go back immediately.
Noriko: There is no other way, because they have jobs.
Kyoko: But sister-in-law, don't you also have a job? They are too selfish.
Kiko: But, Kyoko, Kyoko
: Mommy has to take things as a souvenir when I die. When I think of my mother, I feel sad, but outsiders are more affectionate. It shouldn't be like this between flesh and blood.
Kiko: But, Kyoko, I thought the same way when you were your age. However, when children grow up, they begin to gradually move away from their parents. The eldest sister has left her parents and has her own life. She is by no means ill-intentioned. Everyone puts their own lives first.
Kyoko: Is that true? I don't want to be like this in the future, it's too cold.
Noriko: Indeed. However, maybe everyone will become like this, and it will gradually change.
Kyoko: So sister-in-law, will you change too?
Noriko: Yes. Although I don't want to, it will still be like this.
Kyoko: This world is really annoying.
Noriko: Yeah, full of nasty things.
In life, I have seen too many such chilling scenes, children's impatience with elderly parents, and daughter-in-law's indifference to in-laws. Now I will say some negative words because of my youth like Kyoko, but when I reach the age of Wenzi and have my own family business, what will happen to me? When we live far away from our family and live far away, we are too busy to meet each other because we are too busy to care about contact, and the focus of life always revolves around ourselves. At that time, we may be like what Kiko Say, even if you don't want to, you will still become cold?
In fact, let alone distance, how many people are filial to their parents even if they live together.
Before returning to Tokyo, Kiko confessed to the old man that he had lived very hard for the past eight years and hoped that his life would change, but day after day, nothing changed, and his heart was full of pain and loneliness.
The old father understood this and hoped that Kiko could restart his life, and also gave Kiko the watch he had been wearing before his death.
"It's strange, we have our own children, but you do the most for us. You are not even a relative. Thank you."
In the old man's thanks, Kiko hid his face and wept. This tear seems to have been suppressed for eight years. Pour out at this moment.
At the end of the film, the old man sits alone, gently shaking the fan, and there is silence around him. The camera stays on his side, allowing people to see him for the rest of his life.
The film is plain, concise, natural and full of life. There is no deliberately rendered sadness, no scenes of crying, no complaints, no scolding, but we can always deeply feel their inner world from the actors’ calm expressions and lines without abnormal emotions, those who are depressed Dissatisfaction, feeling of loneliness, painful struggle, selfish temperament, indifferent human nature. The director uses a delicate lens to slowly explain the delicate feelings between people. Even though my face is bursting into tears, I still want to cry.
"Tokyo Story" is a work taken by Ozu Yasujiro in 1953. It now appears that society has progressed, but human nature has stalled.
"Tokyo is so big!
Yeah, if we get separated here, we won't find each other.
Yep"
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