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TOKYO SONATA |
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Japan/Netherlands/Hong Kong, 2008, 119', 35mm, Colour, Japanese
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Director
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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Original Story
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Max Mannix
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Executive Producers
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Yasushi Kotani, Michael J. Werner
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Producers
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Yukie Kito, Wouter Barendrecht
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Screenplay
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sachiko Tanaka
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Director of Photography
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Akiko Ashizawa
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Editor
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Koichi Takahashi
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Production Companies
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Entertainment Farm, Fortissimo Films
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Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Haruka Igawa, Yu Koyanagi, Kai Inowaki and Koji Yakusho
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TOKYO SONATA is a portrait of a seemingly ordinary Japanese family. The father who abruptly loses his job conceals the truth from his family; the eldest son in college hardly returns home; the youngest son furtively takes piano lessons without telling his parents; and the mother, who knows deep down that her role is to keep the family together, cannot find the will to do so. From the exterior, all is normal and the same. But somehow, a single, unforeseeable chasm has appeared within the family, only to spread ever so quietly and quickly to disintegrate them.
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