Tokyo Story quotes

Shige Kaneko: Why, you're back so soon. You should have stayed longer!
Tomi Hirayama: We're home.
Hair salon customer: Who are they?
Shige Kaneko: Oh, just friends from the country.

Shige Kaneko, Tomi Hirayama

But if I had known things would come to this, I'd have been kinder to her while she was alive.

Shukichi Hirayama

Shige Kaneko: Mama, you've grown taller.
Tomi Hirayama: Don't be silly. How could I have grown?
Shige Kaneko: But you have, and you're even fatter.
Shige Kaneko: She was so big when I was little that I used to feel ashamed in front of my friends. Once in school, a chair broke under her.
Tomi Hirayama: Oh, that chair was already broken.
Shige Kaneko: She still thinks that.

Shige Kaneko, Tomi Hirayama