Tokyo Monogatari
Movie
東京物語
1953/11/03
Character count18,710
Word count8,042
Unique words1,538
Words (1-occurrence)788
Unique kanji617
Kanji (1-occurrence)242
Difficulty beta
Easy

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

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