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  1. Jun 25, 2014 · “Tokyo Sonata” is a film which describes a breakdown and a faint ray of hope in a family. The outline of the story is this: In Tokyo, the Sasaki family lives in a town. Ryuhei, the father of the family, is fired, but he can’t tell his family the fact. His two sons also have their own secret.

  2. Mar 12, 2009 · This deft, bracingly unpredictable movie opens in a tidy Tokyo apartment, which housewife Megumi (Kyoko Koizumi) scurries to protect from a cloudburst.

  3. Apr 4, 2011 · Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata is a film about the ultimate irrelevance of questions of meaning and consolation to the lives of real people.

  4. Mar 27, 2009 · “Tokyo Sonata” is bold, acutely observant and universal in its wide-ranging concerns and implications. Although it was surely conceived before the worldwide economic recession hit, its ...

  5. May 5, 2009 · With Tokyo Sonata Kiyoshi Kurosawa takes a partial step back from his traditionally contemplative horror Kammerspeils for the genre that the great Yasujiro Ozu made most of his films in, the gendaigeki (films dealing with contemporary life).

  6. 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.

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  8. Tokyo Sonata. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s appropriately terrifying take on the domestic drama looks beyond the platitudes of familial values and empty promise of a happy life into the recesses of the human condition.

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