Tokyo Twilight
Yasujiro Ozu / JP, 1957 / 140 min.
Ozu’s final black and white film – with its deep psychological layers – may well be the darkest of his masterful family portraits. It follows the parallel courses of two sisters struggling with the absence of their mother, unwanted pregnancy and marriage trouble. New 4K restoration.
Tokyo Twilight, subsumed with wintry melancholy, reveals the destructive effect of marital secrets on the lives of two sisters: the unhappily married Takako (Setsuko Hara) and the rebellious Akiko (Ineko Arima), a lost soul in the world of late-night bars and mahjong parlour backrooms.
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Director
Yasujiro Ozu
Production year
1957
Country
JP
Original title
Tokyo boshoku
Length
140 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
NLD
Format
DCP
Part of
Shochiku 100
Yasujiro Ozu, Masaki Kobayashi, Takeshi Kitano: the masters of Japanese cinema. But did you know that their work was made possible by Shochiku? In 2022 Eye is marking over one hundred years of one of Japan’s oldest, and largest, film companies.
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