At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival it won the Jury Prize of the Un Certain Regard section. That night, Megumi, Ryūhei, and Kenji all have experiences away from home in which they confront the full extent of their existential disquiet. It won the award for Best Film at the 3rd Asian Film Awards and received 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards nominations for Achievement in Directing and Best Screenplay. However, she encounters her husband at the mall working in his secret job as a janitor and decides to return to her captor saying that she cannot return home. The conclusion does not resolve them; instead, we return to look at them, knowing what we know now.
Later that night, as the robber sleeps, Megumi spots a strange light on the horizon over the sea. He pockets it and encounters Megumi while fleeing the bathrooms, from whom he runs away. Watch it play out. Takashi sends a letter home from the field, noting that he has realized that the U.S military is not the only right side and that he will stay in the Middle East to search his happiness there. While attempting to find a new job, Ryūhei encounters an old classmate on the street, Kurosu, who has also recently been downsized. The robber forces Megumi to drive a car he has stolen previously. An extended passage is held in a medium-long shot in which nobody moves, and the effect is uncanny. Kenji, the younger son, wishes to learn to play the piano, even though his father refuses to allow him piano lessons. Dramatic events occur that demonstrate how a routine, once broken, cannot easily be repaired. Kenji tries to leave town by sneaking onto a bus, but he is caught. His humiliation is underlined when all maintenance workers must change into one-piece coveralls at lockers in full view of passing customers. Kurosu is later found dead together with his wife from gas poisoning in a double suicide, thought to be initiated by Kurosu. When his parents find out about Kenji's secret piano lessons, Megumi, who is generally closer to the children, is supportive, but Ryūhei is so furious that he attacks his son, accidentally causing him a minor concussion. He has an encounter at work that is bizarre.And then the film finds a form of release in another unexpected scene. He deposits the envelope of cash in a local lost-and-found bucket, and is the last to arrive back at the house, where the three family members share a meal together without mentioning the events of the previous night.
This intrigues Ryūhei, who decides to hide the fact that he has been fired from his family. All you know about three-act structure is going to be useless in watching this film, even though, like many sonatas, it has three movements. Gradually, Kenji develops a strong relationship with his piano teacher, Miss Kaneko, who urges him to pursue his musical ambitions. Freedom has been asserted. In the following sections, they are developed in passages revealing the secrets or potentials of both. One day, Megumi, while alone at home, is taken hostage by an unemployed man who broke in looking for money. Kurosu uses a feature on his mobile phone that plays the ring tone periodically, so that it may fool others into believing he is still employed. She goes out to look for the light and falls asleep on the beach.
Ryuhei is a salaryman in a management job.
He finds work cleaning toilets in a shopping mall. The father who abruptly loses his job conceals the truth from his family; the eldest son in college hardly returns home; the youngest son furtively takes piano lessons without telling his parents; and the mother, who knows deep down that her role is to keep the family Tokyo Sonata is a portrait of a seemingly …
The next morning, the robber has driven the stolen car into the ocean, and Megumi returns home. Old tapes have been destroyed. An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its … The "themes" in this movie are the father and his family. After a long drive, he allows her leave the car to use the restroom where she has the opportunity to escape. Megumi resigns to the robber's sexual advances, but he ultimately is unable to go through with the act itself.