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Early Summer

Original title: 麦秋

1951 · NR · 2h 5m

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

7.9

TMDB audience score
221 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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
    Noriko Mamiya

  • Chishū Ryū
    Koichi Mamiya

  • Chikage Awashima
    Aya Tamura

  • Kuniko Miyake
    Fumiko Mamiya

  • Ichirō Sugai
    Shukichi Mamiya

  • Chieko Higashiyama
    Shige Mamiya

  • Haruko Sugimura
    Tami Yabe

  • Kuniko Igawa
    Takako

  • Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
    Kenkichi Yabe

  • Shūji Sano
    Sotaro Satake

  • Toyo Takahashi
    Nobu Tamura

  • Seiji Miyaguchi
    Nishiwaki

  • Kokuten Kōdō
    Old Uncle

  • Matsuko Shiga
    Mari Takanashi

  • Tomoka Hasebe
    Hospital Assistant

  • Zen Murase
    Minoru Mamiya