Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Tôkyô boshoku (original title)Reference View | Change View
- Not Rated
- 2h 20min
- Drama
- 19 Jul 1972 (USA)
- Movie
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Cast
Setsuko Hara | ... |
Takako Numata
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Ineko Arima | ... |
Akiko Sugiyama
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Chishû Ryû | ... |
Shûkichi Sugiyama
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Isuzu Yamada | ... |
Kisako Aijima
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Teiji Takahashi | ... |
Noboru Kawaguchi
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Masami Taura | ... |
Kenji Kimura
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Haruko Sugimura | ... |
Shigeko Takeuchi
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Sô Yamamura | ... |
Seki Sekiguchi
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Kinzô Shin | ... |
Yasuo Numata
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Kamatari Fujiwara | ... |
Gihei Shimomura, noodle vendor
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Nobuo Nakamura | ... |
Sakae Aiba
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Seiji Miyaguchi | ... |
Policeman
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Junji Masuda |
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Eiko Miyoshi | ... |
Midwife
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Teruko Nagaoka |
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Mutsuko Sakura |
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Fujio Suga |
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Tsûsai Sugawara | ... |
Mahjong parlor owner
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Haruo Tanaka |
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Kumeko Urabe |
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Kazuko Yamamoto |
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Directed by
Yasujirô Ozu |
Written by
Kôgo Noda | ... | () |
Yasujirô Ozu | ... | () |
Produced by
Shizuo Yamanouchi | ... | producer |
Music by
Takanobu Saitô |
Cinematography by
Yûharu Atsuta |
Editing by
Yoshiyasu Hamamura |
Art Direction by
Tatsuo Hamada |
Set Decoration by
Setsutarô Moriya |
Costume Design by
Yûji Nagashima |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Masahiro Shinoda | ... | assistant director |
Kôzô Yamamoto | ... | assistant director |
Art Department
Toshio Takahashi | ... | set designer |
Sound Department
Shinichi Kishimoto | ... | sound assistant |
Yoshisaburô Senoo | ... | sound |
Katsumi Uzawa | ... | sound recordist |
Camera and Electrical Department
Akira Aomatsu | ... | gaffer |
Takashi Kawamata | ... | camera operator |
Isamu Satô | ... | lighting technician |
Script and Continuity Department
Tomiji Shimizu | ... | script supervisor |
Additional Crew
Don Brown | ... | english subtitle translation |
Catherine Cadou | ... | french subtitles |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Alive (1994) (France) (theatrical)
- Atalante Cinema/Numax Distribución (2024) (Spain) (theatrical) (subtitled version)
- Carlotta Films (2018) (France) (theatrical) (re-release) (restored version)
- Shochiku Films of America (1972) (United States) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- Shochiku (1957) (Japan) (theatrical)
- A Contracorriente Films (2014) (Spain) (DVD) (subtitled version)
- A Contracorriente Films (2023) (Spain)
- BFI Video (2012) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- Filmax Home Video (2008) (Spain) (DVD) (subtitled version)
- Leopardo Filmes (2023) (Portugal)
- Raro Video (2005) (Italy) (DVD)
- The Criterion Channel (2023) (United States) (tv) (streaming)
- The Criterion Collection (2007) (United States) (DVD) (as Eclipse from the Criterion Collection) (English subtitles)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Titra Film Paris (subtitling)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
Tokyo banker Shûkichi Sugiyama's two surviving offspring, adult daughters Takako Numata and Akiko Sugiyama, live with him. He raised them on his own after his wife/their mother Kisako abandoned the family long ago. The father worries about both daughters in different ways. Takako has left her writer/translator husband Yasuo Numata without telling him, and she moves back to her father's home with her and Yasuo's 2-year-old daughter Michiko. Akiko, an English shorthand student who has no recollection of her mother, has been staying out to all hours of the night. Shûkichi and his daughters' Aunt Shigeko believe that sullen Akiko needs a boyfriend to shake her out of her funk, and Auntie starts trying to find her an appropriate suitor. Akiko's family doesn't know that her tie to fellow college student Kenji Kimura is the reason for her uncommunicative sullenness--and why she has secretly been trying to raise ¥5,000. While Shûkichi takes some responsibility for both their problems--he had preferred Numata to Takako's other suitor at the time, who might ultimately have been the better match--he's more disappointed in Akiko than worried about her; he had given her more attention than Takako in their formative years because Akiko never really had a mother. And at just this time, their mother, whom they had presumed was long deceased, reenters their lives, seeming to at least want to have some sort of relationship with them. Kisako's return has a profound effect on both Takako and Akiko, most specifically in how they view the recent goings-on in their own lives. Written by Huggo |
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Did You Know?
Trivia | Abortion has been legal in Japan since 1948. See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in Yasujirô Ozu, le cinéaste du bonheur (2023). See more » |
Quotes |
Akiko Sugiyama:
I want to start over. I want to start my life over again from the beginning. See more » |