Tokyo Notes

Synopsis

A 1998 performance of Oriza Hirata's play set in a Tokyo museum sheltering paintings evacuated from a European war, where family and friends trade quiet conversations that reveal loneliness, love, and social unease, amid growing tensions.

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Key crew

• Oriza HirataDirector
• Oriza HirataWriter

Cast

• Makoto AdachiShinya Akiyama (eldest son)
• Satoko AbeTokiko Akiyama (eldest son's wife)
• Hiroko MatsudaYumi Akiyama (eldest daughter)
• Kôji OgawaraYuji Akiyama (second son)
• Takako YamamuraYoshie Akiyama (second son's wife)
• Eriko WadaIkue Akiyama (second daughter)
• Satoshi KobayashiShigeo Akiyama (third son)
• Yoko HirataEmiko Hirayama (curator)
• Minako TsujiMiyuki Mitsuhashi (art donor)
• Shu MatsuiKunio Ono (lawyer)
• Kazuhiko SakamotoYoshio Saito (Mitsuhashi's friend)
• Kotaro ShigaTeruo Kushimoto (curator)