Tokyo Sonata

• Published in: Film comment Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 70 - 71
• Main Author: YUE, GENEVIEVE
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: New York The Film Society of Lincoln Center 01.03.2009; Film at Lincoln Center, Inc
• Subjects: Motion picture directors & producers; screenings; Los Angeles California; New York; Iraq; United States > US; China; Japan

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...