Early Summer (1951)2h05
Drama
Director Yasujirō Ozu (7.9 avg)
Also directed Tokyo Story, Late Spring, An Autumn Afternoon, and 50 more
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.
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Cast
Setsuko Hara
Chishū Ryū
Chikage Awashima
Kuniko Miyake
Ichirō Sugai
Chieko Higashiyama
Haruko Sugimura
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