Tôkyô Sonata (2008)
Country: JAP/NL/HK
Technical: col 120m
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
Synopsis:
A family fractures when the father is made expendable by his firm and becomes one of the city's covert unemployed, desperately keeping the fact from their wives so that they can retain some shred of pride and authority.
Review:
Alluding to Ozu in its title, this film resembles other more recent Japanese films such as Still Walking, which deal with a far more violent face-off between generations. The story deals equally with the parents and one of the sons, who secretly pays for piano lessons with his school dinner money, until the point where the three stories converge in a night of extraordinary events for each of them. The ending, a wordless scene of the boy playing Clair de lune, is a beautiful moment of stillness in which the music pours its balm into the soul of the two parents and leaves the other listeners stunned.
Country: JAP/NL/HK
Technical: col 120m
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
Synopsis:
A family fractures when the father is made expendable by his firm and becomes one of the city's covert unemployed, desperately keeping the fact from their wives so that they can retain some shred of pride and authority.
Review:
Alluding to Ozu in its title, this film resembles other more recent Japanese films such as Still Walking, which deal with a far more violent face-off between generations. The story deals equally with the parents and one of the sons, who secretly pays for piano lessons with his school dinner money, until the point where the three stories converge in a night of extraordinary events for each of them. The ending, a wordless scene of the boy playing Clair de lune, is a beautiful moment of stillness in which the music pours its balm into the soul of the two parents and leaves the other listeners stunned.
Country: JAP/NL/HK
Technical: col 120m
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
Synopsis:
A family fractures when the father is made expendable by his firm and becomes one of the city's covert unemployed, desperately keeping the fact from their wives so that they can retain some shred of pride and authority.
Review:
Alluding to Ozu in its title, this film resembles other more recent Japanese films such as Still Walking, which deal with a far more violent face-off between generations. The story deals equally with the parents and one of the sons, who secretly pays for piano lessons with his school dinner money, until the point where the three stories converge in a night of extraordinary events for each of them. The ending, a wordless scene of the boy playing Clair de lune, is a beautiful moment of stillness in which the music pours its balm into the soul of the two parents and leaves the other listeners stunned.