Directed by:
Yasujirô OzuCinematography:
Yûharu AtsutaComposer:
Senji ItôCast:
Setsuko Hara, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake, Chieko Higashiyama, Haruko Sugimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Shûji Sano, 菅井一郎, Chikage Awashima, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi (more)VOD (3)
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Traditional Japan and Western modernity subtly clash within the household of young Noriko in post World War II Japan. Surrounded by loving older parents, a married brother, his wife and their children, Noriko maintains her modern ways, despite familial pressure to marry and settle down. This theme, so often approached by Yasujiro Ozu, is played out here in a series of episodes, highlighting the intricacies of every day Japanese life. Noriko lives an almost American lifestyle, working at an office, communing with sassy female friends. The plot is at times minimal, as in several other Ozu films, but the characters come alive as the film progresses, developing a whole world within Noriko's family and office life. As her boss and family pressure her to marry a forty-year-old bachelor, Noriko makes her own plans. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Setsuko Hara](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/843/162843311_be49d5.jpg)
Setsuko Hara
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Early Summer (1951)
Late Autumn (1960)
![Chishû Ryû](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271621_c51c65.jpg)
Chishû Ryû
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
The Human Bullet (1968)
![Kuniko Miyake](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272542_36a95c.jpg)
Kuniko Miyake
Japan
Best movies:
Early Summer (1951)
Early Spring (1956)
Late Autumn (1960)
![Chieko Higashiyama](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272540_e8cc86.jpg)
Chieko Higashiyama
Japan
Best movies:
Early Summer (1951)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Saikaku: Life of a Woman (1952)
![Haruko Sugimura](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272546_7d961e.jpg)
Haruko Sugimura
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Early Summer (1951)
Red Beard (1965)
![Seiji Miyaguchi](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/279/279848_3a706d.jpg)
Seiji Miyaguchi
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Early Summer (1951)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Shûji Sano
Japan
Best movies:
Early Summer (1951)
A Hen in the Wind (1948)
There Was a Father (1942)
![菅井一郎](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/434/161434547_a1a776.jpg)
菅井一郎
Japan
Best movies:
Early Summer (1951)
Legend of Bailiff Sansho (1954)
A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)
Chikage Awashima
Japan
Best movies:
Children of Nagasaki (1983)
Early Summer (1951)
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Early Summer (1951)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
Kuniko Igawa
Japan
Best movies:
Early Summer (1951)
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
Toyo Takahashi
Japan
Best movies:
Early Summer (1951)
Late Autumn (1960)
Equinox Flower (1958)
Kokuten Kôdô
Japan
Best movies:
Early Summer (1951)
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)