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Tokyo Twilight is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Yasujirō Ozu with Kamatari Fujiwara
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Tōkyō boshoku
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Add to a movie listTokyo Twilight (東京暮色, Tōkyō boshoku) is a 1957 Japanese drama film by Yasujirō Ozu. It is the story of two sisters (played by Ineko Arima and Ozu regular Setsuko Hara) who are reunited with a mother who left them as children. The film is considered amongst Ozu's darkest and most melodramatic postwar films.
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Akiko Sugiyama (Ineko Arima) is a young college graduate girl learning English shorthand. Her elder sister Takako (Setsuko Hara), running away from an unhappy marriage, has returned home to stay with Akiko and their father Shukichi (Chishū Ryū) in Tokyo, together with her toddler girl. Shukichi works in a bank in Tokyo. Akiko has a relationship with her college boyfriend Kenji, which results in an unwanted pregnancy. Later, Akiko has an abortion after an encounter in which she realizes that her boyfriend does not love her.Actors
Kamatari Fujiwara
(Noodle Vendor)
Ineko Arima
(Akiko Sugiyama)
Setsuko Hara
(Takako Numata)
Isuzu Yamada
(Kisako Soma)
Chishū Ryū
(Shukichi Sugiyama)
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