Farewell to Dream
Farewell to Dream Clouds at Twilight is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. It was written by Kinoshita's sister Yoshiko Kusuda.
Plot
After the opening titles, which announce the story of a boy whose dream didn't come true, Farewell to Dream shows the protagonist, 20-year-old fishmonger Yoichi, standing in the shop's backyard and looking out into the distance.In a long flashback, the film then switches to the preceding events which took place a few years earlier. 15-year-old Yoichi, the second child of five of a poor Tokyo fishmonger and his wife, dreams of becoming a sailor like his deceased uncle. With his binoculars, a gift from his uncle, he watches a young woman living above a beauty salon in another district of the city and makes up a story about her. His older sister Toyoko, much to her parents' concern, repeatedly cancels her engagements, insisting that she wants to marry a rich man and escape her poor upbringing. Toyoko finally marries a much older man, but has an affair with Sudo, her former fiancé. After a heart attack, Yoichi's father is bedridden and finally dies, so Yoichi has to take over the shop and his younger sister Kazue is adopted by another uncle. When his best friend Seiji moves away due to his father's reassignment and the young woman from the beauty salon marries, Yoichi feels left alone.
Back in the present, Yoichi makes a short break during work in the shop's backyard, musing about his failed dream and the people he had to part ways with.
Cast
- Shinji Tanaka as Yoichi
- Yūko Mochizuki as Oshin, Yoichi's mother
- Yoshiko Kuga as Toyoko, Yoichi's older sister
- Eijirō Tōno as Genkichi, Yoichi's father
- Ryōhei Ōno as Seiji Harada
- Isuzu Yamada as Kiyo, Seiji's mother
- Nobuo Nakamura as Haruo, Seiji's father
- Shin'ichi Himori as Kozo Akimoto, Genkichi's brother
- Takahiro Tamura as Sudo
- Noriko Kikuoki as Kazue, Yoichi's younger sister