Kiyoshi Kurosawa´s Tokyo Sonata: Family Values in an Increasingly Modern Japan

As a former director of a large enterprise, Ryuhei expects more meaningful employment, but still strives to accept his fate as a simple mall servant. All these obstacles affect his attitude towards the family for both his wife and his son. When the family received a letter from their young son (Kenji) who asked him to allow him to go to the music school, the bad result of Ryuhei's anger appeared. Due to the overwhelming anger of his father, Kenji eventually entered the hospital.

Tokyo Sonata is the 2008 movie directed by Kurosawa based on the middle class family life in Tokyo (Sasakis), which is the best movie at the 3rd Asian Film Awards. In this story, Ryhei (father) was unemployed because Chinese workers demanded lower wages than Japanese workers, but he was 46 years old and he was able to find a job because he was lacking a special skill There was not. He needed to line up to become the authority of the "father" in the family, and deliberately hide the family's news and buy free food. Takashi (eldest son) united with the US military. He has a strong desire to protect his family and the country. He believes that Japan is protected by the United States, joining the American army is a way to pursue true happiness (escape from the Tokyo riot he suffered). Kenji (a small son) was excellent for playing the piano, but Ryhei did not allow him to take piano lessons.

Until recently the Western side only enjoyed enormous periods of economic growth, but Japan is under the pressure of halting the majority of the labor force in 10 years. Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Tokyo Sonata (2008) sees this general indifference and its perfection perfectly. The generation of this frustration rediscovered Kobyashi's revolutionary work as it ignited the best-selling list in Japan and urged people to compete again. This assignment came to the hands of former actors, and turned into director Hiroyuki Tanaka. Since it is obvious that Tanaka has already engraved his authority on the script, it is a good time to start using phrases like "skilled workers". Labor unionism, leftists, communism, or whatever you want to call the main driving force is diluted. Thankfully, there is no attempt to translate this work from the 1920's to the present age, but it includes a humorist flashback.

Tokyo Sonata depicts the current employment situation and the lives of today's young people in Japan. In Tokyo, the capital of Japan, it is the center of economic and commercial activities. We encourage Japanese workers to be faithful to the company by working hard, but at the same time with the collapse of the economic bubble, many Japanese workers have no ability to adapt to the new economic working environment and therefore unemployment And I can not find a new job. Therefore, they can choose only labor-intensive work like a vacuum cleaner (Gordon, 1993). On the other hand, young people have no room to explore their talent or social well-being, so one day they will be anonymous members at subway stations close to their office. Due to the harsh environment of school and society, young people are trying to get away from their dreams