Tokyo Sonata
There are no ghosts in the family drama Tokyo Sonata, no senseless violence (though, typical of a Kurosawa film, diere are characters driven to suicide), but the spare, emptied-out cityscapes and sterile interiors clearly belong to the director. When the administrative job of father Ryuhei (Teruyuki...
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| Published in | Film comment Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 70 - 71 |
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New York
The Film Society of Lincoln Center
01.03.2009
Film at Lincoln Center, Inc |
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| Abstract | There are no ghosts in the family drama Tokyo Sonata, no senseless violence (though, typical of a Kurosawa film, diere are characters driven to suicide), but the spare, emptied-out cityscapes and sterile interiors clearly belong to the director. When the administrative job of father Ryuhei (Teruyuki Kagawa) is outsourced to China, and the country's lingering American presence induces his son Takashi (Yu Koyanagi) to join the U.S. military and perhaps end up serving in Iraq, it's symptomatic of how Japan has no choice but to contend widi the new globalized world order, which is sapping the nation and leaving unemployed salarymen congregating in city parks and malls teeming with Iisdess shoppers. |
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| AbstractList | There are no ghosts in the family drama Tokyo Sonata, no senseless violence (though, typical of a Kurosawa film, diere are characters driven to suicide), but the spare, emptied-out cityscapes and sterile interiors clearly belong to the director. When the administrative job of father Ryuhei (Teruyuki Kagawa) is outsourced to China, and the country's lingering American presence induces his son Takashi (Yu Koyanagi) to join the U.S. military and perhaps end up serving in Iraq, it's symptomatic of how Japan has no choice but to contend widi the new globalized world order, which is sapping the nation and leaving unemployed salarymen congregating in city parks and malls teeming with Iisdess shoppers. |
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