Tokyo Sonata (2008)

Ryūhei Sasaki loses his nice white collar, middle-class management job. Rather than tell his wife and kids, he spends his days eating at homeless shelters and begging unsuccessfully for similar jobs with the sea of other unemployed businessmen. He re-befriends one of his old classmates who is going through the exact same situation.

It's a psychologcícal story of familial lies of omission. Ryūhei's wife is a housewife and mother who longs for freedom and cool convertibles. His eldest son is a gutter punk trying to flee Japan to fight in the U.S. army. His youngest son is a loner with aspirations of musical greatness. They avoid ever speaking of their desires, pursue them in secret, and Ryūhei gets angry and abusive if anybody suggests even the most minute change to their miserable lives.

When Ryūhei's optimistically unemployed partner-in-crime suddenly commits murder-suicide, it sets off a fast-paced series of improbable and semi-surreal events that lead to Ryūhei's eventual and absolute ego death. His eldest is sent to war, his youngest invited to musical college, his wife is kidnapped, and he is run over by a van.

The final scene is a straight five minutes of their youngest playing a piano piece by Claude Debussy while everybody watches with tears in their eyes, and then the credits roll with no musical accompaniment.