Reviews of Tokyo Twilight
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Sudarshan R.
4Nov09
TOKYO TWILIGHT is not one of Ozu’s better known films. It was one of the few flops in the 50s and Ozu himself seemed to have felt the film was a failure. This film is more naturalistic and tough than the other family dramas of the period and strikingly, directly critical of the Japanese Patriarch as incarnated by Chishu Ryu who’s stoic passivity before life creates the agon between him and his younger daughter, the younger daughter and her elder sister(played by who else Setsuko Hara) and finally the sister and her estranged mother. Ozu creates a strong social portrait of alienation, underlining his bleak view of a world and society ignorant and indifferent to the struggles of the individual. Ozu was honest and truthful about how this struggle usually panned out but his heart and his soul were always with the people caught up in it. This is a magnificent film.
dope fiend willy
19Feb09
spoilers:
(1957) Tokyo Twilight
This is the darkest film that I’ve yet seen from Ozu, and I don’t think there’ll be another as dark, for that would be quite a feat. In this film, a misguided young girl falls for a rounder, and she gets pregnant. When she talks to him about it, he doesn’t seem too concerned, but he has an appointment and tells her to meet him at a restaraunt the next day to talk about it. he never shows, and she takes this as his final answer as to how he feels about the pregnancy, so she decides definitely to terminate it(something she had been considering, and had even borrowed the money for). Afterward, Akiko becomes even more depressed, and then learns that her mother is not only alive, but also that her father is likely not her father.
Dark Ozu.
- Currently 3.0/5 Stars.