Tôkyô sonata (2008)

Director:

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Writers:

Kiyoshi Kurosawa (screenplay)
Max Mannix (writer)

Release Date:

27 September 2008 (Japan)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Every family has its secrets. [USA release]

Plot:

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company. |

Plot Keywords:

Japanese Family | Burglary | City Name In Title | Decline Job Offer | Japan

Awards:

9 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Teruyuki Kagawa	...	Ryûhei Sasaki
Kyôko Koizumi	...	Megumi Sasaki
Yû Koyanagi	...	Takashi Sasaki
Inowaki Kai	...	Kenji Sasaki
Haruka Igawa	...	Kaneko-san
Kanji Tsuda	...	Kurosu
Kazuya Kojima	...	Kobayashi-san
Kôji Yakusho	...	Dorobô
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jason Gray	...	Amerika no ashigaru

Also Known As:

Tokyo Sonata (International: English title) (USA) (festival title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for thematic elements and brief strong language.

Runtime:

120 min

Country:

Japan | Netherlands | Hong Kong

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Argentina:13 | USA:PG-13 | South Korea:12 | Singapore:PG | Hong Kong:IIB | UK:12

Company:

Django Film

Soundtrack:

Claire de Lune

Enjoy with a Japanese family common problems

After Kiyoshi Kurosawa's film Sakebi (2006), a horror one, comes out his last film Tokyo Sonata in which funny, dramatic, passionate and frustrated attitudes seem to be each one of the characters of the four personages in this film (the husband, the mother, the youngest son and the oldest son respectively) which catches spectator interest through the life of this Japanese middle-class traditional family. With a simply story depicted in Tokyo city and structured with events which show social-economic issues of ordinary people who try to manage without the century present problems, there is no lost for watching Tokyo Sonata. Also, enjoyable the breath of Japanese culture representation.