Movie
Tokyo Sonata
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2008-09-27
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Nikkatsu Corporation, Fortissimo Films, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Django Film, Tokyo Laboratory, avex pictures, Entertainment Farm
- Country
- Japan, Netherlands
- Original language
- JA
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
- Tao Tsuchiya as Mika
- Denden as Janitor
Crew
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Director
- Sachiko Tanaka - Writer
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Writer
- Max Mannix - Writer
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