Movie · Drama · Japanese Cinema

Yasujiro Ozu's hugely influential award-winning masterpiece, 'Late Spring', is a tender meditation on family politics, sacrifice and the status quo. Noriko (Setsuko Hara) and her father, Professor Somiya (Chishu Ryu), live together in perfect harmony but old certainties are put at risk when an interfering aunt raises the question of marriage. Introducing Ozu's popular Noriko character, 'Late Spring' poignantly examines the gradual compromise between modernity and tradition.

1949 · 1h 47m
Director Yasujirō Ozu

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Late Spring

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Yasujiro Ozu's hugely influential award-winning masterpiece, 'Late Spring', is a tender meditation on family politics, sacrifice and the status quo. Noriko (Setsuko Hara) and her father, Professor Somiya (Chishu Ryu), live together in perfect harmony but old certainties are put at risk when an interfering aunt raises the question of marriage. Introducing Ozu's popular Noriko character, 'Late Spring' poignantly examines the gradual compromise between modernity and tradition.

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Average 9.2
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Studio
The Criterion Collection
Released
1949
Run Time
1 hr 47 min
Rated
Unrated
Region of Origin
Japan
© 1949 Shochiku Co., Ltd

Languages

Original Audio
Japanese, Japanese (Japan)
Audio

Japanese (Japan) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (United States) (Always On)