Synopsis
A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.
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Cast
- Teruyuki KagawaRyuhei Sasaki
- Kyoko KoizumiMegumi Sasaki
- Kai InowakiKenji Sasaki
- Yū KoyanagiTakashi Sasaki
- Haruka IgawaKaneko
- Kanji TsudaKurosu
- Kazuya KojimaMr. Kobayashi
- Koji YakushoRobber
- Takashi Kodama
- Hajime Inoue
Recommendations
- 83
The A.V. Club
As always, Kurosawa masterfully controls his film's framing and sound design, and as always, the painstakingly precise mise-en-scene can feel a little overdone at times. - 80
Film Threat
With Tokyo Sonata, Kurosawa shows that he has quite the flair for dry humor and peppers this film with just the perfect amount. - 80
Village Voice
Kurosawa's abiding concern has always been the alienation of modern living, which he here merely transplants into a more recognizable domestic milieu, where subtle fissures in society's apparent order threaten to short-circuit people instead of their beloved technology. - 80
The New York Times
Tokyo Sonata, looks like a family melodrama -- if a distinctly eccentric variant on the typical domestic affair -- there is more than a touch of horror to its story of a salaryman whose downsizing sets off a series of cataclysmic events. - 75
New York Post
Although envisioned before the world economy went to hell, Tokyo Sonata is relevant to the mess we're in now. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
A disconcerting melange, Tokyo Sonata begins rather conventionally before spinning into black comic, almost fantastical, terrain. - 70
Chicago Reader
Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa switches gears from supernatural horror to poignant social satire. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Thanks to the script which invests the smallest scenes with dramatic significance, Tokyo Sonata enthrals audiences for the first hour with the pacing of a thriller.
