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Late Spring

Original title: Banshun
  • 19491949
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 48m
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Late Spring (1949)
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Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
17K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
15,467
531
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    • Director
      • Yasujirô Ozu
    • Writers
      • Kazuo Hirotsu(based on the novel "Chichi to musume" by)
      • Kôgo Noda(screenplay)
      • Yasujirô Ozu(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Chishû Ryû
      • Setsuko Hara
      • Yumeji Tsukioka
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Yasujirô Ozu
    • Writers
      • Kazuo Hirotsu(based on the novel "Chichi to musume" by)
      • Kôgo Noda(screenplay)
      • Yasujirô Ozu(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Chishû Ryû
      • Setsuko Hara
      • Yumeji Tsukioka
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 86User reviews
    • 60Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 5 wins

    Videos1

    Late Spring: The Criterion Collection [Blu-Ray]
    Trailer 1:29
    Late Spring: The Criterion Collection [Blu-Ray]

    Photos30

    Setsuko Hara in Late Spring (1949)
    Setsuko Hara and Haruko Sugimura in Late Spring (1949)
    Chishû Ryû and Yumeji Tsukioka in Late Spring (1949)
    Late Spring (1949)
    Late Spring (1949)
    Late Spring (1949)
    Setsuko Hara in Late Spring (1949)
    Chishû Ryû and Yumeji Tsukioka in Late Spring (1949)
    Setsuko Hara and Chishû Ryû in Late Spring (1949)
    Late Spring (1949)
    Setsuko Hara in Late Spring (1949)
    Late Spring (1949)

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    Chishû Ryû
    Chishû Ryû
    • Shukichi Somiya
    Setsuko Hara
    Setsuko Hara
    • Noriko Somiya
    Yumeji Tsukioka
    • Aya Kitagawa
    Haruko Sugimura
    Haruko Sugimura
    • Masa Taguchi
    Hôhi Aoki
    • Katsuyoshi
    Jun Usami
    Jun Usami
    • Shôichi Hattori
    Kuniko Miyake
    Kuniko Miyake
    • Akiko Miwa
    Masao Mishima
    Masao Mishima
    • Jo Onodera
    Yoshiko Tsubouchi
    Yoshiko Tsubouchi
    • Kiku
    Yôko Katsuragi
    Yôko Katsuragi
    • Misako
    Toyo Takahashi
    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
    • Director
      • Yasujirô Ozu
    • Writers
      • Kazuo Hirotsu(based on the novel "Chichi to musume" by)
      • Kôgo Noda(screenplay)
      • Yasujirô Ozu(screenplay)
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    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Most of the movie takes place in Kita-Kamakura, about 30 miles from downtown Tokyo. Several years after the release of the film, the director, 'Yasujiro Ozu', moved with his mother to the area and spent the rest of his life there. (His tomb is also located there.) Furthermore, the film's star, Setsuko Hara, also eventually moved to the area and, as of May 2013, reportedly still lives there under her birth name, Masae Aida.
    • Goofs
      A camera/dolly shadow is visible on the sidewalk as it follows Noriko walking.
    • Quotes

      Shukichi Somiya: Marriage may not mean happiness from the start. To expect such immediate happiness is a mistake. Happiness isn't something you wait around for. It's something you create yourself. Getting married isn't happiness. Happiness lies in the forging of a new life shared together. It may take a year or two, maybe even five or ten. Happiness comes only through effort. Only then can you claim to be man and wife.

    • Connections
      Featured in Shôchiku eiga sanjû-nen: Omoide no album (1950)

    User reviews86

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    Depicts the acceptance of the sadness of life
    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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    • howard.schumann
    • Apr 14, 2003

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    • Release date
      • July 21, 1972 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official site
      • Shochiku (Japan)
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Kasno proljece
    • Filming locations
      • Kita-Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
    • Production company
      • Shochiku
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $13,254
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $6,456
      • Mar 6, 2016
    • Gross worldwide
      • $19,681
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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