But if I had known things would come to this, I'd have been kinder to her while she was alive.
Read more Shukichi Hirayama QuotesFrom: Tokyo Story
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.
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.