Tokyo Twilight

Tokyo boshoku
Tokyo Twilight
Theatrical release poster
Directed byYasujirō Ozu
Written byYasujirō Ozu
Kōgo Noda
StarringIneko Arima
Setsuko Hara
Isuzu Yamada
Chishū Ryū
Kamatari Fujiwara
Nobuo Nakamura
Haruko Sugimura
CinematographyYuuharu Atsuta
Edited byYoshiyasu Hamamura
Music byKojun Saitō
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • April 30, 1957 (1957-04-30)
Running time
140 min.
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Tokyo Twilight (東京暮色, Tōkyō boshoku) is a 1957 Japanese drama film by Yasujirō Ozu. It is the story of two sisters (played by Ineko Arima and Ozu regular Setsuko Hara) who are reunited with a mother who left them as children. The film is considered amongst Ozu's darkest postwar films; it is well received though lesser known. It is his last film shot in black and white.