전세계를 울린, 노부부의 일주일간의 도쿄 여행 작은 섬에 살고 있는 히라야마 부부가 자식들과 만나기 위해 동경에 상경한다. 의사인 큰아들 코이치와 미용실을 운영하는 둘째 딸 시게코는 갑작스런 노부부의 방문을 부담스러워하고, 바쁘다는 핑계로 호텔 숙박을 권유하는 등 소홀히 대한다. 노부부의 철없는 막내아들 쇼지만이 여자친구 노리코와 함께 그들을 따뜻하게 보살피지만, 예기치 않은 사건으로 가족에게 위기가 닥치는데…

In this film director Yoji Yamada bows down before his teacher and role model. Yamada was assistant director on Yazujir Ozu's Tky monogatari, a moving family portrait set after the Second World War. In his remake, Yamada has made very few departures from Ozu's masterpiece in order to update the story of ageing couple Shukichi and Tomiko to present day Japan. Once again, the pair decides to leave their quiet lives in the country to pay a visit to their children and grandchildren in Tokyo. Once there, they discover that neither their oldest son, a doctor named Koichi, nor their eldest daughter Shigeko - who runs a beauty parlour - has time for them: both are too busy attending to their everyday concerns. Even the youngest son went his own way. The old couple feel lonely and bewildered in the fast-paced metropolis.