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2 August 1972 (USA) morePlot:
A family chooses a match for their 28-year-old daughter Noriko, but she surprisingly has her own plans. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Delightful, & A Triumph For Ozu's Style moreCast
(Credited cast)| Setsuko Hara | ... | Noriko Mamiya | |
| Chishu Ryu | ... | Koichi Mamiya | |
| Chikage Awashima | ... | Aya Tamura | |
| Kuniko Miyake | ... | Fumiko Mamiya | |
| Ichirô Sugai | ... | Shukichi Mamiya | |
| Chieko Higashiyama | ... | Shige Mamiya | |
| Haruko Sugimura | ... | Tami Yabe | |
| Kuniko Ikawa | ... | Takako | |
| Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi | ... | Kenkichi Yabe | |
| Shûji Sano | ... | Sotaro Satake | |
| Toyo Takahashi | ... | Nobu Tamura (as Toyoko Takahashi) | |
| Seiji Miyaguchi | ... | Nishiwaki | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Ito Kazuyo | ... | Mitsuko Yabe | |
| Kokuten Kodo | ... | Old Uncle | |
| Zen Murase | ... | Minoru Mamiya | |
| Tomiko Nishiwaki | ... | Tami Yamamoto | |
| Matsuko Shiga | ... | Mari Takanashi | |
| Isao Shirosawa | ... | Isamu Mamiya | |
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Ozu's "Early Summer" is a delightful movie to watch, pleasant and light in its story, yet thoughtful and sensitive in a good many respects. It is also a triumph for Ozu's simple-looking but carefully conceived style of film-making, and the material in the story parallels the style in a natural but satisfying manner.
So many of Ozu's movies portray the distinctive characteristics of the Japan of his day, and yet do so in a way that make the characters and their situations seem almost universal. By focusing so much of the running time on repeated daily routines, even the habits and customs unique to its own society become points of identification, since routines are routines, regardless of how they might differ from one time and place to another.
Here, the family relationships among the central characters are fleshed out carefully, so as to create many possibilities in the interactions between the various generations. There is significant screen time given to many different characters, and all of them are worth getting to know. Noriko (Setsuko Hara) is the main character, in that she ties together her family with the characters outside of it, and as the movie proceeds, it is her life that gradually becomes the main focus. Ozu's presentation of the preoccupation that the other characters have with Noriko's unmarried status is both believable and perceptive. Hara is very endearing in the role, and she does very well in portraying her relationships with and her reactions to the other characters.
Given that Ozu deliberately makes very sparing use of camera movement and similar techniques, in favor of simple but carefully composed settings that emphasize the characters themselves, there is a nice parallel in the way that the story proceeds and the main questions are resolved. The characters' heartfelt decisions are shown to be more worthwhile than meticulous arrangements. As tends to happen with his films, a pleasing pattern with a ring of truth to it emerges, almost unexpectedly. It's enjoyable to watch, and an admirable display of cinematic skill.