Tokyo Story director Yasujiro Ozu's hugely influential and award-winning masterpiece Late Spring is a tender meditation on family politics sacrifice and the status quo. Noriko (Setsuko Hara) and her father Professor Somiya (Chishu Ryu) live together in perfect harmony but old certainties are put at risk when an interfering aunt raises the question of marriage. Introducing Ozu's popular Noriko character Late Spring poignantly examines the gradual compromise between modernity and tradition and is now available for the first time on Blu-ray from the BFI.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and region B Blu-ray. It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray and DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD. Continuing his exploration of the Japanese family and it's permutations and variations, LATE SPRING is Yasujiro Ozu's fragile tale of a young woman, slightly older than marrying age in traditional Japanese society, who lives a tranquil life with her widowed father. The father begins to worry that his beloved daughter may never leave him and thus spoil her chances for a happy life. After she refuses a proposed husband, the father tricks her by pretending to remarry. The daughter eventually marries in order to leave her father alone with his new wife, and the father who in reality had no intention of marrying, is left alone. Actors Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura, Hohi Aoki, Jun Usami & Kuniko Miyake Director Yasujiro Ozu Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1949 Languages Japanese Subtitles English Duration 1 hour and 48 minutes (approx)
Yasujiro Ozu directs this intimate family portrait telling the story of widowed college professor Somiya (Chishu Ryu), who must face the inevitability that his only daughter, 27-year-old Noriko (Setsuko Hara), will soon be married off. Noriko, however, sees no reason to disrupt the harmony of the family home and repeatedly insists that marriage is not for her. Yet the social pressure continues to build, and eventually Somiya tricks his daughter into marrying by informing her that he is planning to remarry himself.
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