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Director:
Writers:
Kazuo Hirotsu (based on the novel "Chichi to musume" by)
Kôgo Noda (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
21 July 1972 (USA) See more »
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Plot:
Noriko is 27 years old and still living with her widowed father. Everybody tries to talk her into marrying, but Noriko wants to stay taking care of her father. Full summary » | Add synopsis »
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5 wins See more »
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Depicts the acceptance of the sadness of life See more (47 total) »

Cast

  (in credits order)

Chishû Ryû ... Shukichi Somiya

Setsuko Hara ... Noriko Somiya
Yumeji Tsukioka ... Aya Kitagawa
Haruko Sugimura ... Masa Taguchi
Hohi Aoki ... Katsuyoshi
Jun Usami ... Shôichi Hattori
Kuniko Miyake ... Akiko Miwa
Masao Mishima ... Jo Onodera
Yoshiko Tsubouchi ... Kiku
Yôko Katsuragi ... Misako
Toyo Takahashi ... Shige (as Toyoko Takahashi)
Jun Tanizaki ... Seizô Hayashi
Ichirô Shimizu ... Takigawa's master
Yôko Benisawa ... Teahouse Proprietress
Manzaburo Umewaka ... Shite
Nobu Nojima ... Waki
Ichiro Kitamura ... Little drum
Haruo Yasufuku ... Big drum
Soichi Konparu
Tadaichi Aoki ... Prompter
Nagahiro Yoshida
Seiju Kanze ... Nô chorus
Shintaro Umewaka ... Nô chorus
Shizuo Kanze ... Nô chorus
Seiji Toda ... Nô chorus
Kozo Fukuda ... Nô chorus
Shinichiro Takayama ... Nô chorus
Seinosuke Ishida ... Nô chorus
Yutaka Aoki ... Nô chorus
Kinzo Hasegawa ... Nô chorus
Gazan Hasegawa ... Nô chorus
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Mikuma Shimada ... Flute
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Directed by
Yasujirô Ozu 
 
Writing credits
Kazuo Hirotsu (based on the novel "Chichi to musume" by)

Kôgo Noda (screenplay) and
Yasujirô Ozu (screenplay)

Produced by
Takeshi Yamamoto .... producer
 
Original Music by
Senji Itô 
 
Cinematography by
Yûharu Atsuta 
 
Film Editing by
Yoshiyasu Hamamura 
 
Art Direction by
Tatsuo Hamada 
 
Set Decoration by
Mototsugu Komaki 
 
Costume Design by
Bunjiro Suzuki 
 
Makeup Department
Hisae Kakizawa .... hair stylist
Toku Sakuma .... key hair stylist
Kingorô Yoshizawa .... hair stylist
 
Production Management
Dai Watanabe .... executive in charge of production
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Buichi Saito .... assistant director
Kôzô Tashiro .... assistant director
Shôkichi Tsukamoto .... assistant director
Kôzô Yamamoto .... assistant director
 
Art Department
Makoto Aihara .... assistant property master
Masao Kumagai .... assistant art director
Kakuzô Sasu .... assistant set designer
Kintaro Yamamoto .... set designer
Tetsuji Yamazaki .... assistant property master
 
Sound Department
Yoshiomi Hori .... sound recordist
Rokusaburô Saitô .... sound effects editor
Hidetaka Sasaki .... sound
Hirofumi Satô .... sound recordist
Yoshisaburô Senoo .... sound mixer
Kôjirô Suematsu .... sound recordist
Ryô Ôfuji .... sound recordist
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Akira Aomatsu .... assistant camera
Seiji Inoue .... assistant photographer
Haruo Isono .... gaffer
Takashi Kawamata .... assistant photographer
Takeo Matsuda .... assistant photographer
Motoshige Oikawa .... assistant photographer
Yoshiji Shagawa .... assistant photographer
Shigeo Suzuki .... assistant camera
 
Editorial Department
Michiyo Haneta .... assistant editor
 
Other crew
Ryûji Hayashi .... film development
Kôichi Nakamura .... photo printing
Tayû Tajiri .... stage manager
Masao Yagi .... stage manager
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Banshun" - Japan (original title)
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Runtime:
108 min
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It is the first installment of Ozu's so-called "Noriko trilogy". The others are Early Summer (Bakushu, 1951) and Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari, 1953).See more »
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Crew or equipment visible: A camera/dolly shadow is visible on the sidewalk as it follows Noriko walking.See more »
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16 out of 19 people found the following review useful.
Depicts the acceptance of the sadness of life, 14 April 2003
Author: Howard Schumann from Vancouver, B.C.

The concept of mono no aware is said to define the essence of Japanese culture. The phrase means "a sensitivity to things", the ability to experience a direct connection with the world without the necessity of language. Yasujiro Ozu sums up this philosophy in Late Spring, a serene depiction of the acceptance of life's inevitabilities and the sadness that follows it. The film shows the pressure in Japanese families for children to be married as the "natural order" of things, regardless of their wishes. One wonders if Ozu, who never married, is sharing his own family experience with us.

In Late Spring, a widowed Professor, Somiya (Chishu Ryu), must face the inevitability of giving up his daughter, Noriko (Setsuko Hara) to marriage. Noriko, however, wants only to continue to live at home and care for her father and insists that marriage is not for her. Yet the social pressure to marry continues to build, coming not only from her father but also from Somiya's sister Masa (Haruko Sugimura) whom she calls "Auntie", and from a friend, the widower Onodera (Masao Mishima) who has recently remarried. Masa, unrelenting, presents Noriko with a prospect named Satake who reminds her of actor Gary Cooper, but she is still reluctant. To make it easier for Noriko to decide, Somiya tells her that he is planning to remarry and she will no longer need to take care of him. Noriko's agonizes over her decision and her once beaming face increasingly carries hints of resignation. At the end, the old man sits alone peeling a piece of fruit as the ocean waves signal the inexorable flow of timeless things.

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