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Always: Sunset on Third Street '64

Movie
Audience Score
67
Always: Sunset on Third Street '64
NR 2 hr 22 minComedy, DramaAlways: Sunset on Third Street Collection PosterPart of Always: Sunset on Third Street Collection
The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is pregnant and he has built a second level on his shop to provide his adopted son Junnosuke with a private space to study for entrance to Tokyo University to set up a career with a major company. He dreams of sparing Junnosuke the struggles that he has faced as a writer. The family continues to rely upon Hiromi's income from her bar. Meanwhile a rival story, The Virus, by a new writer has appeared in the periodical that has been publishing his stories "Boy's Adventure Book" and he fears the new competition. Norifumi Suzuki also receives a new TV, but more of a deluxe model. Mutsuko Hoshino (Roku) is still the principal mechanic in the Suzuki family's auto repair shop, but she dresses up some mornings to go to a nearby street with the hope of a "chance" meeting with Dr...
StarringHidetaka YoshiokaKoyukiShinichi Tsutsumi
DirectorTakashi Yamazaki

Movie Details

Movie Box Office Gross:$35,297,840 (Worldwide)
Original Language:Japanese
Executive Producers:Shuji Abe, Seiji Okuda
Production Companies:Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company, dentsu, Fukuoka Broadcasting System, Hiroshima Telecasting, Miyagi Television Broadcasting, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Robot Communications, Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company, Shirogumi, Shizuoka Daiichi Television, Shogakukan, Yomiuri Shimbun Company, TOHO, VAP, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Movie Tags:
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Always: Sunset on Third Street Collection

Always: Sunset on Third Street (ALWAYS 三丁目の夕日 Ōruweizu: San-chōme no Yūhi) is a 2005 Japanese film co-written and directed by the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki, based on Ryōhei Saigan's long-running manga Sanchōme no Yūhi. The plot takes place in a small community in post-war Tokyo, and follows some of the residents over one year as Tokyo Tower is being built. Norifumi Suzuki runs a small auto repair shop, where he lives with his wife and son. A young girl from Aomori prefecture, comes to live with them and work as Suzuki's apprentice. Ryūnosuke Chagawa lives across the street and runs a small shop out of his house. He writes serial novels called "Shōnen Bōken-dan" ("The Young Boys Adventure Club"). Despite the difficulties in the characters' lives, the film has many light-hearted moments; a nostalgia for post-war Japanese "good old days".