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Tokyo Elegy (1951)
Directed by Shigeo Tanaka
Drama · 1h 28m
In 1945, in a Shanghai filled with a palpable sense of unease as the war was still raging, Atsuko Kijima and Ryuji Kudo fell in love and exchanged promises of marriage. Ryuji was deployed shortly thereafter, and after the war ended, he was taken to Siberia as a prisoner of war. Atsuko, who had returned to Tokyo, clung to the promise she had made with Ryuji—that if he were safe, he would “come to the garden of St. Nicholas Cathedral at noon on Christmas Day.” Relying on that promise, she went to St. Nicholas Cathedral at noon on Christmas Day in both 1946 and 1947, but Ryuji never appeared.
Cast
Jun Usami
Masayuki Mori
Kazuko Fushimi
Bontarō Miake
Kumeko Urabe
Hisako Takihana
Crew
- Director
- Shigeo Tanaka
- Screenplay
- Kaneto Shindō
- Director of Photography
- Shigeyoshi Mine
Details
- Original title
- 東京悲歌
- Release date
- 1951-09-28
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Daiei Film