Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
- japan
- family relationships
- tokyo
- japan
- widower
- 20th century
- shōwa era (1926-89)
- japanese economic miracle
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Teruo Yoshida — Yutaka Miura
- Noriko Maki — Fusako Taguchi
- Shinichirō Mikami — Kazuo
- Nobuo Nakamura — Shuzo Kawai
- Eijirō Tōno — Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
- Kuniko Miyake — Nobuko
- Kyôko Kishida — Madame Kaoru
- Ryuji Kita — Tamako
- Toyo Takahashi — Wakamatsu's Owner
- Shinobu Asaji — Youko Sasaki
- Masao Oda — Watanabe
- Directed
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Written
- Yasujirō Ozu, Kōgo Noda
Production
- Studio
- Shochiku, Shochiku Ofuna Film Studio
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
