![]() Tomi goes to stay with Noriko, with whom she deepens their emotional bond. When they return, Shige explains that she sent them to Atami because she wanted to use their bedroom for a meeting. She takes time from her busy office job to take Shkichi and Tomi on a sightseeing tour of metropolitan Tokyo. Only their widowed daughter-in-law, Noriko ( Setsuko Hara ), the wife of their middle son Shji, who was missing in action and presumed dead during the Pacific War, goes out of her way to entertain them. Kichi and Shige are both busy and do not have much time for their parents. The couple travel to Tokyo to visit their son, daughter and widowed daughter-in-law. In 2012, it was voted the best film of all time in a poll of film directors by Sight Sound magazine. It was screened in 1957 in London, where it won the inaugural Sutherland Trophy the following year, and received praise from US film critics after a 1972 screening in New York City. Released in Japan on November 3, 1953, it did not immediately gain international recognition and was considered too Japanese to be marketable by Japanese film exporters. Ozu used many of the same cast and crew members that he had worked with for years. Noda suggested adapting the film, which Ozu had not yet seen. ![]()
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