Tokyo Sonata

Produced in 2008

Film Information

Festival Edition 2009 - Edition 9

Section Panorama

Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Country Japan / The Netherlands / Hong Kong

Duration 119 min

Language Japanese (English subtitles)

Category Panorama 2009

Producer Yukie Kito, Wouter Barendrecht

Screenplay Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sachiko Tanaka

Cast Koji Yakusho

Genre Drama

Synopsis

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 youngest son furtively takes piano lessons without telling his parents; and the mother, who knows deep down that her role is to keep the family together, cannot find the will to do so.

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Tokyo Sonata