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Tokyo Twilight

Tokyo boshoku

1957

Yasujirō Ozu

Ineko Arima, Kamatari Fujiwara, Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu ...

8.0

1,350

Drama Two sisters live with their father. The younger sister is embroiled in an affair and becomes pregnant. The elder sister has run away from her husband and returned with her child to her parent's home. Both sisters are astonished when their mother, long thought dead, turns up alive.

	Author	Review
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"A Yasujiro Ozu film is instantly exhilarating because of the tension between his rigorously economic style, with its profoundly evocative images, and his warm compassion for the Japanese"	POS
United States	Fred Camper Chicago Reader	"One of his best (...) Ozu makes superb use of background sounds such as ticking clocks and a boat motor to mark the passage of time."	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"This turbulent and grim family melodrama, from 1957, is steered away from the maudlin and given emotional depth and philosophical heft under the direction of Yasujiro Ozu."	POS

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