Tokyo Twilight
A quietly devastating portrait of two sisters grappling with abandonment and family fracture in post-war Tokyo, where emotional wounds run deeper than reconciliation.
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.
Essence
Ensemble
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
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