Tokyo Sonata Articles

Tokyo Sonata (2008) Direction: Kyoshi Kurosawa Screenplay: Kyoshi Kurosawa, Max Mannix, Tachiko Tanaka Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Inowaki Kai, Yû Koyanagi, Kôji Yakusho, Haruka Igawa, Kanji Tsuda, Kazuya Kogima     Some reviews and commentaries describe Tokyo Sonata, winner of this year's Asian Film Awards for best film and best screenplay, as showing the disintegration of an "ordinary" Japanese family after the husband-father gets [...]

2009 Asian Film Awards 2009 Asian Film Award nominations: Jan. 21, 2009 2009 Asian Film Award winners: March 23, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   In Kyoshi Kurosawa's best Asian Film Award winner Tokyo Sonata, a middle-class worker (Teruyuki Kagawa) loses his job (it's outsourced to China), but can't get himself to tell his family about his predicament. Slowly, however, both his [...]