Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.
- marriage proposal
- husband wife relationship
- based on novel or book
- atomic bomb
- world war ii
- hiroshima
- japan
- post world war ii
- radiation sickness
- 1940s
- 1950s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Yoshiko Tanaka
Yasuko
Kazuo Kitamura
Shigematsu Shizuma
Etsuko Ichihara
Shigeko Shizuma
Masato Yamada
Tatsu
- Shoichi Ozawa — Shokichi
- Norihei Miki — Kotaro
- Hisako Hara — Kin
- Tamaki Sawa — Woman in Ikemoto-ya
- Akiji Kobayashi — Katayama
- Kazuko Shirakawa — Old Woman with White Flag
- Kenjirou Ishimaru — Aono
- Taiji Tonoyama — Old Priest
- Fujio Tokita — Old Woman with Burns
- Toshie Kusunoki — Kane
- Reiko Nanao — Rui
- Directed
- Shōhei Imamura
- Written
- Shōhei Imamura, Toshirō Ishidō
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 136 ratings
- Studio
- Hayashibara Group, Imamura Productions, TFC
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.
