
Overview
The winds of change blow as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of communication. When a Japanese salaryman loses his job to outsourcing to China, it's simply the beginning of a series of shattering incidents, leading to the implosion of the family unit.
Fun facts
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Awards
Won the Asian Film Award for Best Film (2008)
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Box office
Grossed $944K worldwide against a $2M budget
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Setting
Set in Tokyo
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Music
Music by Kazumasa Hashimoto
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Max MannixWriter
- Sachiko TanakaWriter
- Kiyoshi KurosawaWriter
- Original title
- トウキョウソナタ
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 27, 2008
- Original language
- Japanese
- Budget
- $2M
- Revenue
- $943.5K
- Countries
- Japan, Netherlands
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