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Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.
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- TriviaAbortion has been legal in Japan since 1948.
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Akiko Sugiyama: I want to start over. I want to start my life over again from the beginning.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Yasujirô Ozu, le cinéaste du bonheur (2023)
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A deeply, uncharacteristically dark film, even among other "dark" Ozu films (i.e. A HEN IN THE WIND, EARLY SPRING) that may require a theatrical setting for the viewer to be fully absorbed in the strange, dark textures of the world Ozu presents. I myself was pretty alienated for the first 1/2 hour or so until the wintry chill of the mise-en-scene (brilliantly suggested in the slightly hunched-over postures of the characters) found its way into me instead of keeping me at arm's length. And from there this story builds in unwavering intensity as it follows a family on a slow slide into dissolution: a passive, judgmental patriarch (played by Chisyu Ryu, subverting his gently accepting persona in a way that is shocking), his elder daughter, a divorcee with a single child (Setsuko Hara, playing brilliantly against type -- who'd have thought the sweetest lady in '50s Japan had such an evil scowl?), and his younger daughter (Ineko Arima, a revelation), secretly pregnant and searching for her boyfriend, get a major shakeup when their absent mother, who the father had told them was long dead, re-enters their lives. Ozu's vision of post-war Japan and how the sins of one generation get passed on to the next, illustrated brilliantly by a series of parallels drawn sensitively between characters, manages to be both compassionate and scathing -- even a seemingly cop-out happy denouement is embedded with a poison pill. A masterpiece, without question, one that throws all of Ozu's depictions of modern society in a beautifully devastating new light.
- alsolikelife
- Dec 12, 2003
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- Also known as
- Twilight in Tokyo
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- Tokyo, Japan(setting of the action)
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- $4,461
- Runtime2 hours 20 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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