Always-Sunset on Third Street - Film August 11, 2009

Always-Sunset on Third Street - Film (2005). Directed by : Takashi Yamazaki. The year is 1958. After the Government had declared that the 'postwar' period is over, Japan is starting a period of tremendous, growth. In the working-class area called shitamachi, people are trying their best to improve their lives. Hoshino Mutsuko just graduated from junior high school from northern Japan arrives in Tokyo imagining herself that Suzuki Auto where she is to work must be a big car manufacturer. But she is surprised when the company president, Suzuki Norifumi, comes to the station to greet her. Her friends tell her she might be the president's secretary, but she soon finds out that she is becoming only employee of a small car repair shop in shitamachi. Norifumi, hearing the disappointment of Mutsuko, accuses her of lying in her application as car repairs. It turns out, however, that he not only lied himself in the job posting, saying Suzuki Auto was a car maker, but also misread her application and apologizes to her. Across the street, Chagawa Ryunosuke runs a candy store. He writes adventure stories for kids in third-rate magazines, but all his stories are rejected. He tries to run down his sorrows at a new bar run by Ishizaki Hiromi. Ryunosuke, boasting of his expertise with the children, ends up taking in Junnosuke, the abandoned son of a disappeared dancer. One day during the fall, Junnosuke, overhearing Ryunosuke and Hiromi's talk about where his mother might be, ventures along with Suzuki's son Ippei to find her. Based on a comic by Saigan Ryohei that began publication in 1974, Always rode the wave of a nostalgia boom for 1950s Japan and became a box office hit. Its vision of the era is largely rose colored and matches other conventional representations of lower-class shitamachi (downtown) neighborhoods, featuring good-natured but slightly oddball characters who maintain a strong sense of community presumably lost in modern urban Japan. This film has won thirteen of Japan's fourteen Academy Awards in 2006 (including 'Best Picture, 'Best Director, 'Best Screenplay', and 'Best Actor'). As part of Japan Film Festival.

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