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Tokyo Sonata
The winds of change blow as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of communication. When a Japanese salaryman loses his job to outsourcing to China, it's simply the beginning of a series of shattering incidents, leading to the implosion of the family unit.
2008 · Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa · 120 min · Drama · 17 frames
Tagline
Every family has its secrets.
Crew
- Written by: Sachiko Tanaka, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Max Mannix
- Cinematography: Akiko Ashizawa
- Edited by: Kôichi Takahashi
- Music: Kazumasa Hashimoto
- Production design: Tomoe Matsumoto, Tomoyuki Maruo
- Produced by: Raymond Phathanavirangoon, Wouter Barendrecht, Yukie Kito, Yasushi Kotani
Cast
- Teruyuki Kagawa as Ryuhei Sasaki
- Kyoko Koizumi as Megumi Sasaki
- Kai Inowaki as Kenji Sasaki
- Yu Koyanagi as Takashi Sasaki
- Haruka Igawa as Kaneko
- Kanji Tsuda as Kurosu
- Kazuya Kojima as Mr. Kobayashi
- Koji Yakusho as Robber
- Takashi Kodama
- Hajime Inoue
Production
- Country: Japan, Netherlands
- Language: Japanese
- Studios: Nikkatsu Corporation, Fortissimo Films, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Django Film
- Budget: $2,000,000
- Box office: $943,547
- Themes: piano lessons, middle class, family relationships, tokyo, japan, loss of job, losing a job
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