Late Spring

Banshun

One of Yasujiro Ozu’s finest works, a quietly devastating drama that tells a story of love, sacrifice and loss between a daughter and a father.

  • Director

    Yasujirō Ozu

  • With

    Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura

  • Japan 1949. 107min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    U

  • English subtitles

In this brilliant examination of Japanese post-war society, Noriko is a single working woman content to live with her widowed father. That is, until a visiting aunt declares that Noriko ought to marry before it’s too late, threatening to erode their harmonious co-existence. One of the film’s most memorable sequences sees Noriko taking a beachside bicycle trip with a potential suitor, only for things to turn out differently.

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