Tokyo Sonata

Every family has its secrets.

A devastating portrait of a middle-class Japanese family's unraveling under economic pressure, told with quiet intensity and deep melancholy.

The winds of change blow as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of communication. When a Japanese salaryman loses his job to outsourcing to China, it's simply the beginning of a series of shattering incidents, leading to the implosion of the family unit.