Film

Tokyo Elegy

1951 · 1h 28m · Drama

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.

Jun Usami

Masayuki Mori

Akiko Sawamura

Kazuko Fushimi

Bontarō Miake

Sayoko Kasumi

Kansho Yoshii

Kumeko Urabe

Hisako Takihana

Ken Yamaguchi

Tadashi Date

Haruko Miyaji

Kunihiko Suga

Shō Natsuki

Yūzō Hayakawa

Hikaru Hoshi

• Shigeo TanakaDirector
• Kaneto ShindōScreenplay
• Shigeyoshi MineDirector of Photography

Release date

September 28, 1951

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Drama