Synopsis
One of Ozu’s most piercing portraits of family strife, Tokyo Twilight follows the parallel paths of two sisters contending with an absent mother, unwanted pregnancy, and marital discord.
Cast
| Takako Numata | Setsuko Hara |
| Akiko Sugiyama | Ineko Arima |
| Shukichi Sugiyama | Chishu Ryu |
| Kisako Soma | Isuzu Yamada |
| Noburo Kawaguchi | Teiji Takahashi |
| Kenji Kimura | Masami Taura |
| Shigeko Takeuchi | Haruko Sugimura |
| Seki Sekiguchi | So Yamamura |
Credits
| Director | Yasujiro Ozu |
| Screenplay | Yasujiro Ozu and Kogo Noda |
| Producer | Shizuo Yamauchi |
| Art direction | Tatsuo Hamada |
| Cinematography | Yuhara Atsuda |
| Music | Takanobu Saito |
| Editing | Yoshiyasu Hamamura |
From the Current
Eclipse Series 3:
Late Ozu
by
Jun 18, 2007
Yasujiro Ozu had already directed forty-five features by the time he started work on Early Spring, in 1955, but the artistic and commercial success of his previous film, Tokyo Story (1953), had rejuvenated him. Considered an emotional and technical refinement of the motifs he had...
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