Tokyo Sonata (2008)

Original title

トウキョウソナタ

Directed by

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h

Rated

IIA

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 282 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A middle class family of four in Japan each quietly question their own lives and futures. The father loses his job but hides it from his family while the mother and sons pursue their own secret paths.

slow-burntensemelancholicbleakcontemplativeemotionally distantrestrainedcharacter-driven

What happens

Tokyo Sonata (Japanese: トウキョウソナタ) is a 2008 Japanese psychological drama film directed and co-written by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It stars Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyōko Koizumi, Yū Koyanagi and Kai Inowaki as an emotionally distant middle-class family of four who all individually come to question their life choices and futures. Kanji Tsuda, Kōji Yakusho and Haruka Igawa co-star in supporting roles. Tokyo Sonata premiered in May 2008 at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prix Un Certain Regard, before a theatrical release in Japan on September 27. The film received positive reviews, won Best Film and Best Screenwriter at the 3rd Asian Film Awards, and was nominated for Achievement in Directing and Best Screenplay at the 2nd Asia Pacific Screen Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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