Tokyo Elegy

Tokyo Elegy (1951)

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.

Director: Shigeo Tanaka
Writer: Kaneto Shindō

Casts

	Jun Usami as
	Masayuki Mori as
	Akiko Sawamura as
	Kazuko Fushimi as
	Bontarō Miake as
	Sayoko Kasumi as
	Kansho Yoshii as
	Kumeko Urabe as
	Hisako Takihana as
	Ken Yamaguchi as
	Tadashi Date as
	Haruko Miyaji as
	Kunihiko Suga as
	Sho Natsuki as
	Yūzō Hayakawa as
	Hikaru Hoshi as
	Manabu Morita as
	Munehiko Takada as
	Michiko Kunihiro as
	Mitsuko Takesato as
	大野千鶴子 as
	Bumon Kahara as
	Teppei Endō as
	Tōru Sumikawa as
	毛利敏夫 as
	千代京二 as
	Ken Tsumura as

Crew