Haruka Igawa, Inowaki Kai, Kai Inowaki
"Tokyo Sonata" is a portrait of a seemingly ordinary Japanese family. The father who abruptly loses his job conceals the truth from his family; the eldest son in college hardly returns home; the young...( read more
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Kurosawa seems to have finally thrown off all the trappings of the horror genre, or perhaps channeled them into something a lot more subtle here ... until the third act. What begins as a typical family spiraling downward drama, quirky japanese style, spins a little out of control...( read more)
That kid cheated! How can you not leave everyone in awe when you play Claire de Lune?
Probaby my favorite film out of the ones I've been watching the past few days, Tokyo Sonata got off to a great start and had a great finish but I couldn't help but wonder how amazing it would have been had some of the last third of the film not been so absurdly melodramatic. Don'...( read more)
Quiet film which once again highlights the sadder aspects of Japan. Like so many Japanese films in the last couple of decades, from Go! through Akira and All About Lily Chou Chou part of the story includes a disaffected youth, struggling for identity in an i...( read more)
Brilliant! Kurosawa sets up his film as a somewhat typical family drama, with a lot of tension about an unhappy family becoming even unhappier, then... well it becomes a Kurosawa film. It seems that this is an expansion of his previous film, Doppelganger, which plays with conve...( read more)
a husband looses his job and is too proud to admit it so goes spending his days trying to find another, he reluctantly takes a cleaning job, while athome theres problems also, concerning his wife, and two kids, ainteresting drama, ful of nice performances and situations
There is some welcome comedy -- here and there. Otherwise it is not amazing.
interesting drama.some concept are original,some are cliche.but still inspiring enough
Kiyoshi Kurosawa nous avait habitué à des films de qualité, mais dans un tout autre registre. Tokyo Sonata, à la fois regard sans concession sur notre société et drame familial d'une intelligence et d'une subtilité rares, est probablement son meilleur film.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa ditches horror and takes on the family unit. Though it's nothing too new, it involves a mother on the verge of a breakdown, a shamed father who's just been laid off and afraid to tell his family and their two rebellious sons it's nice to see a usually horror-orie...( read more)
We believe we know where Tokyo Sonata is going. We are wrong. full review
For all its oddities, this movie does carry weight, and, with more than eight per cent of Americans out of work, the timing of its release here could not be more acute. full review
A touching and acerbic Japanese drama. full review
Another of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's chilling portraits of micro and macro alienation, a family drama as chillingly controlled and despondent as the horror films that gained him international recognition. full review
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