There are no current Madrid showtimes for The Plague (2025), but this page keeps the local screening history because it has already screened at Yelmo Rivas H2O, Cinesa Nassica and Odeon Alcalá Norte.
If it returns to Madrid screens, new dates will appear here. The most recent tracked screenings were for Mon 22 Jun, Wed 17 Jun and Tue 16 Jun.
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Synopsis
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Awards and festivals
1953Mainichi Film ConcoursBest Supporting Actress — Haruko Sugimura
1958BFI London Film FestivalSutherland Trophy — Yasujiro Ozu
Places
Set in Japan, 1953 · Tokyo, 1953 · Onomichi, 1953 · Atami, 1953 · Ueno Park, 1953 · Osaka, 1953
Filmed at Tokyo — Location shooting in Tokyo, specifically including Adachi, Chuo, Taito and Chiyoda wards.
Adachi, Tokyo — Named Tokyo ward used as a filming location.
Chuo, Tokyo — Named Tokyo ward used as a filming location.
Taito, Tokyo — Named Tokyo ward used as a filming location.
Chiyoda, Tokyo — Named Tokyo ward used as a filming location.
Tokyo Station — Indoor waiting-area scenes were shot at Tokyo Station rather than at Shochiku Ofuna Studio.
Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture — Location shooting in Onomichi; only Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara and Kyoko Kagawa among the major cast participated there.
Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture — Named filming location; also a story stop at a hot-spring spa.
intergenerational family conflictclassical repertoryfamily responsibilityFamily estrangementaging and autonomyadaptation and reinventionpostwar traumapostwar Europe
Tone and style
intimate family dramaSlow & contemplativeBittersweetfilm-club essentialattentive adult dramaTearjerkercharacter studycinephile deep cutLong-take tableaux
