Awarded 29 wins and 2 nominations on Awards of Japanese Academy!!
It is Tokyo when the world war 2 just ended.
People were as not rich as us today, they did not have all the technology we have today.
However, they were much much connected and treated with much love each other.
This is one of the best movies that I have ever watched!
It makes me cry.
Even though I did not live that time, I feel a longing for that.
And by seeing how people treat each other in the town, it makes me realizing this is how people should be.
Today, we have money, technology, and live in such a convenient situation, but we always complain and never be satisfied.
This movie makes me think what is happiness.
In 1958, with the impending completion of Tokyo's TV broadcasting tower as a symbol of Japan's escalating post-war economic recovery, rural schoolgirl Mutsuko (Maki Horikita) arrives from the provinces to begin her first job with Suzuki Auto. Initially impressed by meeting company "president" Norifumi Suzuki (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi), Mutsuko is shocked to discover her workplace is actually a shabby auto repair shop in Tokyo's down-at-heel Yuhi district.
Suzuki is a bad-tempered employer but Mutsuko is welcomed by his wife, Tomoe (Hiroko Yakushimaru), and their impish 5-year-old son, Ippei (Kazuki Koshimizu). One of Ippei's favorite haunts is a five-and-dime store managed by struggling serial writer Ryunosuke Chagawa (Hidetaka Yoshioka). Regarding now-successful writers like Nobel-prize winner Kenzaburo Oe, as overrated, Chagawa wants to be more than a hack churning out sci-fi yarns and selling cheap toys on the side.
When alluring newcomer Hiromi (Koyuki) opens a sake bar in the area, she gathers clientele quickly -- in dramatically compressed manga style -- but also finds herself lumbered with Junnosuke (Kenta Suga) the orphaned offspring of the bar's previous tenant. Drunk, and smitten by Hiromi, Chogawa accepts custodianship of the boy. (From Asianwikidrama.com:http://asianmediawiki.com/Always:_Sunset_on_Third_Street)
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