Synopsis
In his first film after the commercial and critical success of Tokyo Story, Ozu examines life in postwar Japan through the eyes of a young salaryman, dissatisfied with career and marriage, who begins an affair with a flirtatious co-worker.
Cast
| Masako Sugiyama | Chikage Awajima |
| Shoji | Ryo Ikebe |
| Chiyo Kaneko | Keiko Kishi |
| Taizo Aoki | Teiji Takahashi |
| Kiichi Onodera | Chishu Ryu |
| Yutaka Kawai | So Yamamura |
| Tamako | Haruko Sugimura |
Credits
| Director | Yasujiro Ozu |
| Screenplay | Kogo Noda and Yasujiro Ozu |
| Cinematography | Yuharu Atsuta |
| Art direction | Tatsuo Hamada |
| Music | Kojun Saito |
| Editing | Yoshiyasu Hamamura |
From the Current
Eclipse Series 3:
Late Ozu
by
Jun 18, 2007
Yasujiro Ozu had already directed forty-five features by the time he started work on Early Spring, in 1955, but the artistic and commercial success of his previous film, Tokyo Story (1953), had rejuvenated him. Considered an emotional and technical refinement of the motifs he had...
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