Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.
- marriage proposal
- family relationships
- matchmaking
- tokyo
- japan
- post world war ii
- post war japan
- family issues
- unmarried woman
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Setsuko Hara
Noriko Mamiya
Chishū Ryū
Koichi Mamiya
Chikage Awashima
Aya Tamura
Kuniko Miyake
Fumiko Mamiya
- Ichirō Sugai — Shukichi Mamiya
- Chieko Higashiyama — Shige Mamiya
- Haruko Sugimura — Tami Yabe
- Kuniko Igawa — Takako
- Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi — Kenkichi Yabe
- Shūji Sano — Sotaro Satake
- Toyo Takahashi — Nobu Tamura
- Seiji Miyaguchi — Nishiwaki
- Kokuten Kōdō — Old Uncle
- Matsuko Shiga — Mari Takanashi
- Tomoka Hasebe — Hospital Assistant
- Directed
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Written
- Kōgo Noda, Yasujirō Ozu
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 206 ratings
- 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.
