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Review: Tokyo Sonata. By Genevieve Yue in the March-April 2009 Issue. Despite his reputation as a leading J-Horror auteur, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has tended to eschew the grisly thrills and spectral manifestations of his peers for a more diffuse atmosphere of mystery and dread.
Teruyuki Kagawa’s performance crystallizes that sense of losing control, as each expression on his face betrays how secretly afraid Ryuhei feels. The disasters that this family faces threaten to never stop, and Kurosawa executes them perfectly through excellent story structure and performance.
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Tokyo Sonata Reviews. Beautifully shot film that's like an Ozu family drama. Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 10, 2023. It may be a departure from his recent forays into J-horror, but in...
Apr 9, 2009 · We believe we know where “Tokyo Sonata” is going. We are wrong. No, it doesn’t turn into another horror film or a murder-suicide. It simply shows how lives torn apart by financial emergencies can be revealed as being damaged all along.
Jun 17, 2010 · Winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Tokyo Sonata is a modern masterpiece that should not be missed.
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Tokyo Sonata (トウキョウソナタ, Tōkyō Sonata) is a 2008 Japanese psychological drama film directed and co-written by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It stars Teruyuki Kagawa, Yū Koyanagi and Kai Inowaki as the four members of an emotionally distant middle-class family who all individually come to question their life choices and futures.