Synopsis
The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu’s most deftly modulated blendings of comedy and tragedy.
Cast
| Manbei Kohayakawa | Ganjiro Nakamura |
| Akiko | Setsuko Hara |
| Noriko | Yoko Tsukasa |
| Fumiko | Michiyo Aratama |
| Hisao | Keiji Kobayashi |
| Masao | Masahiko Shimazu |
| Eiichiro Isomura | Hisaya Morishige |
| Tsune Sasaki | Chieko Naniwa |
| Yuriko | Reiko Dan |
| Farmer | Chishu Ryu |
| Shige Kato | Haruko Sugimura |
| Yanosuke Kitagawa | Daisuke Kato |
Credits
| Director | Yasujiro Ozu |
| Screenplay | Yasujiro Ozu and Kogo Noda |
| Producer | Sanezumi Fujimoto, Tadahiro Teramoto and Masakatsu Kaneko |
| Cinematography | Asakazu Nakai |
| Art direction | Tomoo Shimogawara |
| Music | Toshiro Mayuzumi |
| Editing | Koichi Iwashita |
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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