Anyway, this place is meant for the younger generation.
Read more Shukichi Hirayama QuotesFrom: Tokyo Story
Kurazo Kaneko: We can't leave them there all night.Shige Kaneko: It can't be helped, can it?Kurazo Kaneko: Let's have Kiyo come down and we'll put them upstairs.Shige Kaneko: They're too drunk to make it.Kurazo Kaneko: What will we do, then?Shige Kaneko: What a mess.Shige Kaneko: You sleep upstairs. I'll put them here.Shige Kaneko: What a bother. Why didn't he tell me he was coming back? So late and so drunk! I hate drunkards. With a stranger, too. Oh, this is disturbing.
Tomi Hirayama: You were so nice to us, children. Now that we've seen you all, you need not come down, even if anything should happen to either one of us.Shige Kaneko: Don't talk like that. This isn't a farewell.Tomi Hirayama: I mean it. We live too far away.
Kyoko: I think they should have stayed a bit longer.Noriko: But they're busy.Kyoko: They're selfish. Demanding things and leaving like this.Noriko: They have their own affairs.Kyoko: But you have yours too. They're selfish.Noriko: But Kyoko...Kyoko: Wanting her clothes right after her death. I felt so sorry for poor mother. Even strangers would have been more considerate!Noriko: But look Kyoko. At your age I thought so too. But children do drift away from their parents. A woman has her own life, apart from her parents, when she becomes Shige's age. She meant no harm I'm sure. They have to look after their own lives.Kyoko: I wonder: I won't ever be like that. Then what's the point of family?Noriko: But children become like that, gradually.Kyoko: Then... you, too?Noriko: I may become like that in spite of myself.Kyoko: Isn't life disappointing?Noriko: Yes, it is.