Tony Takitani is a 2004 Japanese movie based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, starring Issei Ogata and Rie Miyazawa, directed by Jun Ichikawa.
The film starts by telling the story of Tony’s father Takitani Shozaburo, a jazz trombonist from Japan, who spends the second world war in China. Shozaburo is imprisoned and many of his fellow inmates are executed. He expects he will be executed one day and he is shown curled up on the floor of his cell. However he survives and in 1946 returns to Japan where he marries a distant relative on his mother’s side. A year later they have a child, Tony, but Tony’s mother dies three days after giving birth to him. Continue reading »
