Late Spring

Original title: Banshun

IMDb RATING

8.2/10

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Setsuko Hara and Chishû Ryû in Late Spring (1949)

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Comedy Drama

Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

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IMDb RATING

8.2/10

20K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 5 wins

Trivia
Most of the movie takes place in Kita-Kamakura, about 30 miles from downtown Tokyo. Several years after the release of the film, the director, 'Yasujiro Ozu', moved with his mother to the area and spent the rest of his life there. (His tomb is also located there.) Furthermore, the film's star, Setsuko Hara, also eventually moved to the area and, as of May 2013, reportedly still lived there under her birth name, Masae Aida.

Goofs
A camera/dolly shadow is visible on the sidewalk as it follows Noriko walking.

Quotes
Shukichi Somiya: Marriage may not mean happiness from the start. To expect such immediate happiness is a mistake. Happiness isn't something you wait around for. It's something you create yourself. Getting married isn't happiness. Happiness lies in the forging of a new life shared together. It may take a year or two, maybe even five or ten. Happiness comes only through effort. Only then can you claim to be man and wife.

Connections
Featured in Shôchiku eiga sanjû-nen: Omoide no album (1950)

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10/10

Setsuko Hara is perfect as Noriko

I've watched this film many times and love it very much. Ozu made Hara perfectly beautiful in this film. Noriko devoted her father and didn't want to marry because of him. He would be lonely if she married. Father and daughter lived happily together, but when she saw an elegant widow at Noh theather, she had jealousy. Hara Setsuko's acting was perfect as Noriko who was in love with her own father. No other actress could act like that. She was only Noriko. So director Ozu didn't change her role name Noriko for Setsuko Hara. Noriko in Banshun(Late Spring), Noriko in Bakushu(Early Summer),Noriko in Tokyo Monogatari(Tokyo Story) and I am Noriko as Setuko Hara's No.1 fan in Japan.