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.
| 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 |
| Director | Yasujiro Ozu |
| Screenplay | Kogo Noda and Yasujiro Ozu |
| Cinematography | Yuharu Atsuta |
| Art direction | Tatsuo Hamada |
| Music | Kojun Saito |
| Editing | Yoshiyasu Hamamura |
By June 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 Read more »
