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Tokyo Sonata

2008 · 120 min

A quiet, unsettling slide into family crisis that tightens like a wire before releasing into something achingly tender.

Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Genres: Drama
Starring: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Kai Inowaki

Tagline: Every family has its secrets.
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.

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Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Genres: Drama
Starring: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Kai Inowaki

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
isolation
identity
class
grief
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	2
Humour	3
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Written by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Max Mannix, Sachiko Tanaka
Starring: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Kai Inowaki, Yu Koyanagi, Haruka Igawa, Kanji Tsuda, Kazuya Kojima, Koji Yakusho
Music: Kazumasa Hashimoto
Cinematography: Akiko Ashizawa
Runtime: 120 min
Country: Japan, Netherlands
Languages: Japanese

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