Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that range from the humorous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little conflicts, problems, and joys in their own way.
- surrealism
- middle class
- dysfunctional family
- based on manga
- urban setting
- grandmother
- japanese family
- haiku
- anime
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Hayato Isohata
Noboru Yamada (voice)
Masako Araki
Shige Yamano (voice)
Naomi Uno
Nonoko Yamada (voice)
Toru Masuoka
Takashi Yamada (voice)
- Yukiji Asaoka — Matsuko Yamada (voice)
- Akiko Yano — Teacher Fujihara (voice)
- Kosanji Yanagiya — Haiku Reader (voice)
- Tamao Nakamura — Shige's Friend (voice)
- Chōchō Miyako — Grandma Kikuchi (voice)
- Suguru Egawa — Baseball Commentator on Television (voice)
- Directed
- Isao Takahata
- Written
- Isao Takahata
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 629 ratings
- Studio
- Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokuma Shoten, Hakuhodo
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.
