Always: Sunset on Third Street '64

Always: Sunset on Third Street '64

2012142 min7.2 / 10

A bittersweet ensemble drama set in 1960s Tokyo that balances romantic uncertainty and parental doubt against the warmth of community and the melancholy of a changing era.

As the Tokyo Olympics usher in a wave of rapid modernisation, the residents of Third Street face new beginnings as Mutsuko becomes involved with a seemingly perfect young doctor who may not be all he appears, while Chagawa struggles with his stalled writing career and what it truly means to be a father to the boy he has raised as his own.

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