Tokyo Sonata (2008) Japan, Netherlands, Hong Kong
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Director:Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Studio:Django Film
Producer:Wouter Barendrecht, Yuki'e Kitô, Yasushi Kotani, Raymond Phathanavirangoon
Writer:Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Max Mannix
Rating:5
Rated:PG-13
Date Added:2018-12-07
UPC:741952681199
Awards:2 wins & 1 nomination
Genre:Thriller, Foreign
IMDb:0938341
Duration:120
Picture Format:1080p 24fps
Aspect Ratio:1.85 : 1
Sound:Dolby SR
Languages:Japanese
Subtitles:English
Features:• Making-of Documentary (SD, 1:00:39 hour)
• Q&A, Tokyo, Sept 2008 (SD, 12:15 min)
• Premiere, Tokyo, Sept 2008 (SD, 15:11 min)
• DVD Discussion (SD, 8:33 min)
• UK Trailer (HD, 2:12 min)

28-page booklet containing a short director's statement and B. Kite's elaborate essay "Open Parenthesis on Kurosawa Kiyoshi" (the author is a writer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. His essays have appeared in The Believer, Cinema Scope, The Village Voice, and Traffic, as well as the anthology Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood. He is currently editing the third episode of a series of video investigations into the work of Orson Welles).
LAC code:4000101238
DVD or VHS:DVD
Original:original
Kiyoshi Kurosawa  ...  (Director)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Max Mannix  ...  (Writer)
 
Teruyuki Kagawa  ...  Ryûhei Sasaki
Kyôko Koizumi  ...  Megumi Sasaki
Yû Koyanagi  ...  Takashi Sasaki
Kai Inowaki  ...  Kenji Sasaki
Haruka Igawa  ...  Kaneko-san
Kanji Tsuda  ...  Kurosu
Kazuya Kojima  ...  Kobayashi-san
Kôji Yakusho  ...  Dorobô
Faisal Ahmed  ...  Train Conductor
Denden  ...  
Jason Gray  ...  Amerika no ashigaru
Tao Tsuchiya  ...  
Kazumasa Hashimoto  ...  Composer
Akiko Ashizawa  ...  Cinematographer
Koichi Takahashi  ...  Editor
Summary: An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.