Tokyo at dusk

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Movie
German title Tokyo at dusk
Original title 東京 暮色 , Tōkyō Boshoku
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1957
length 140 minutes
Age rating FSK 12 years
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Director Yasujirō Ozu
script Kōgo Noda ,
Yasujirō Ozu
production Shizuo Yamauchi
music Takanobu Saitō
camera Yūharu Atsuta
cut Yoshiyasu Hamamura
occupation

Tokyo at Dusk ( Japanese 東京 暮色 , Tōkyō Boshoku ) is a Japanese film from 1957 by director Yasujirō Ozu . It is a particularly dark film with Chishū Ryū and his film daughters Setsuko Hara and Ineko Arima in the lead roles.

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Akiko Sugiyama lives at home and is studying English shorthand at a technical college. Her older sister Takako is married to Professor Yasuo Numata, who has become difficult and who is often seen drunk. Now she has returned with her young daughter to the house of her father Shūkichi, who is a bank clerk.

Several storylines develop: Akiko is in a relationship with Kenji Kimura, a young man who does not have a regular job. She looks for him in different places, eventually finds him and explains to him that she is pregnant. He is not at all enthusiastic about the news and disappears. She eventually has the child aborted.

A second plotline arises when Akiko find Kenji in a Mahjong -Salon where it meets the boss Soma Kikuko. She pretends to be a former neighbor and asks how Akiko's family is doing. - The daughters' aunt, Shigeko Takeuchi, visits her brother and says that she happened to meet his former wife in a department store. She reported that while Shūkichi was on duty in Korea, she had gone away with her family friend and moved to Manchuria . This man then died, so she went back to Tōkyǒ and now runs the salon with her new husband Sakae Soma. But he wants to go to Muroran on Hokkaidō because of better work , while she prefers to be in Tōkyō.

Akiko visits her mother, harassing her about who her father is. The mother replies that this is her current father and asks her to believe it. The next scene begins with a glance at a level crossing. Akiko enters the noodle stand nearby and, in a sad mood, lets himself be poured sake . Kenji happens to come by but claims he was looking for her the whole time. She slaps him and runs out. Then you can hear the train, bells and whistle signals. In the following scene Akiko lies injured in the hospital and says weakly that she wants to start a new life. The scene closes with a glance at the slowly moving pendulum of a grandfather clock.

Takako visits the Majong salon dressed in black and reports that Akiko is dead and that it is her mother's fault. The mother now wants to leave Tokyo, but first comes to Sugiyama's house with flowers, where she meets Takako, who remains cool, but cries after her mother leaves. In the following scene, the mother is sitting with her husband in the train to Hokkaidō , which is ready for departure . The mother goes to the window and waits for Takako, while next to it a noisy group of students says goodbye to a fellow student. But Takako doesn't come.

In the last scene, Takako is packing her things. She has decided to return to her unloved husband so that her daughter can grow up with both parents. - The next morning the father is now alone, getting ready for work, supported by the housekeeper. The film ends with the father slowly going to work.

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Many scenes begin with the Ozu-typical camera setting: The camera is low, is not panned and shows the view along a hallway onto a cross corridor or the view along a short street onto a cross street. The look outside that introduces the scenes shows the ugliness of the quickly rebuilt Tōkyō. A pleasant exception is the view of the Sugimuras' house entrance at the level of a hillside path.

Soft music is played, which underlines the still images rather than intensifying verbal arguments unnecessarily and dramatically. The sun never shines, it's winterly cold, and snow occasionally falls. The officers at the police station work in coats. The past war is still present, with families torn apart as one of its consequences. As in other films, the father is left alone in the end. Otherwise he would lose his daughters through a happy marriage.

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