Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 141 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Two sisters learn about the existence of their long-lost biological mother, but the younger is unable to accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
- daughter
- sibling relationship
- tokyo
- japan
- mahjong
- post war japan
- book translator
The bill
Setsuko Hara
Takako Numata
Ineko Arima
Akiko Sugiyama
Chishū Ryū
Shukichi Sugiyama
Isuzu Yamada
Kisako Soma
- Teiji Takahashi — Noburo Kawaguchi
- Masami Taura — Kenji Kimura
- Haruko Sugimura — Shigeko Takeuchi
- So Yamamura — Seki Sekiguchi
- Kinzō Shin — Yasuo Numata
- Kamatari Fujiwara — Noodle Vendor
- Nobuo Nakamura — Sakae Aiba
- Seiji Miyaguchi — Policeman
- Junji Masuda — Baa's Guest
- Eiko Miyoshi — Midwife
- Teruko Nagaoka — Housekeeper Tomizawa
- Directed
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Written
- Yasujirō Ozu, Kōgo Noda
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 155 ratings
- Studio
- Shochiku
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