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Movie
Late Spring
Synopsis
Veteran Japanese writer/director Yasujiro Ozu's second postwar production was 1949's Late Spring or Banshun. Chisu Ryu plays another of Ozu's realistic middle-class types, this time a widower with a marriageable daughter. Not wishing to see the girl resign herself to spinsterhood, Ryu pretends that he himself is about to be married. The game plan is to convince the daughter that they'll be no room for her at home, thus forcing her to seek comfort and joy elsewhere. What makes this homey little domestic episode work is the rapport between Chisu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, who plays the daughter. Late Spring is no facile Hollywood farce; we like these people, believe in them, and wish them the best.
Cast
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Ryu Chishu
- Setsuko Hara
- Haruko Sugimura
- Yumeji Tsukioka
- Hohi Aoki
- Jun Osami
- Masao Mishima
- Yoshiko Tsubouchi
- Kuniko Miyake
- Yôko Katsuragi
- Toyo Takahashi
- Jun Tanizaki
- Ichirô Shimizu
- Youko Benisawa
- Manzaburo Umewaka
- Nobu Nojima
- Ichiro Kitamura
- Haruo Yasufuku
- Soichi Konparu
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Yoshiyasu Hamamura
- Yuharu Atsuta
- Kogo Noda
- Tatsuo Hamada