Late Autumn Film Still

Late Autumn

Yasujiro Ozu

Japan

1960

128 minutes

Color

1.33:1

Japanese

Synopsis

The great actress and Ozu regular Setsuko Hara plays a mother gently trying to persuade her daughter to marry in this glowing portrait of family love and conflict—a reworking of Ozu’s 1949 masterpiece Late Spring.

Cast

Akiko MiwaSetsuko Hara
AyakoYoko Tsukasa
Yuriko Sasaki Mariko Okada
Shotaro GotoKeiji Sata
Soichi MamiyaShin Saburi
FumikoSadako Sawamaru
MichikoMiyuki Kuwano
TadaoMasahiko Shimazu
Shukichi MiwaChishu Ryu

Credits

DirectorYasujiro Ozu
ScreenplayYasujiro Ozu and Kogo Noda
Based on the novel byTon Satomi
CinematographyYuharu Atsuta
Art directionTatsuo Hamada
MusicKojun Saito
EditingYoshiyasu Hamamura

From the Current

Eclipse Series 3:
Late Ozu

by Michael Koresky 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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