Tokyo Elegy

The story

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.

Cast

J Jun Usami M Masayuki Mori A Akiko Sawamura K Kazuko Fushimi B Bontarō Miake S Sayoko Kasumi K Kansho Yoshii K Kumeko Urabe H Hisako Takihana K Ken Yamaguchi T Tadashi Date H Haruko Miyaji

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K Kunihiko Suga S Sho Natsuki Y Yūzō Hayakawa H Hikaru Hoshi M Manabu Morita M Munehiko Takada M Michiko Kunihiro M Mitsuko Takesato 大 大野千鶴子 B Bumon Kahara T Teppei Endō T Tōru Sumikawa T Toshio Mōri 千 千代京二 K Ken Tsumura