Early Summer
Bakushû
1951, Film, 125 min, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 75
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.
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Cast
- Setsuko Hara as Noriko Mamiya
- Chishū Ryū as Koichi Mamiya
- Chikage Awashima as Aya Tamura
- Kuniko Miyake as Fumiko Mamiya
- Ichirō Sugai as Shukichi Mamiya
- Chieko Higashiyama as Shige Mamiya
- Haruko Sugimura as Tami Yabe
- Kuniko Igawa as Takako
- Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as Kenkichi Yabe
- Shūji Sano as Sotaro Satake
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