Late Spring (1949)

Highly Recommended

Japan

Feature Film
Original Title: 晩春
Director: Ozu Yasujirō
Writers: Hirotsu Kazuo, Noda Kōgo, Ozu Yasujirō
Cinematographer: Atsuta Yuuharu
Composer: Itō Senji
Cast: Ryū Chishū, Hara Setsuko, Tsukioka Yumeji, Sugimura Haruko, Aoki Hohi, Usami Jun

At the risk of his own happiness, and despite her many protestations, an ageing Tokyo gentleman becomes determined to marry off his 27-year-old daughter, in Ozu‘s beautifully nuanced and quietly devastating film, which can boast cinema’s first pairing of the ever wonderful Ryu and Hara. Iain.Stott