Late Spring Comments

  • Juston 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    Ozu's problem is actually a problem that human beings must face in the end. It is not only a human feeling, so light that it can be ignored, but also a most human feeling, so heavy that there is never an...

  • Bill 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    I didn't expect the sensational ending to be so sudden and direct, I almost cried. The father kept saying, daughter, be happy and be a good wife. But my feelings are all in that apple peel... The first session of Film Forum "Ozu...

  • Guadalupe 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    Movie worth watching. At the beginning, a staff member called: Aoki...

  • Abigayle 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    The smile of Hara Setsuko's youth and...

  • Timmy 2022-03-18 09:01:09

    5.0. Hall 1 of the Archives, 4K restoration. Setsuko Hara's most beautiful performance. 1. Sharing the same theme with "The Taste of Saury" and "Autumn Harmony", marrying a daughter is the last concern of the elders. To say that the father is full of flavor is pure fart, and the middle-aged and elderly people sitting next to me basically burst into tears at the entrustment of Li Zhizhong to Hara Setsuko before marriage. 2. Of course, a daughter does not have to be married, but the mutual...

  • Micaela 2022-03-18 09:01:09

    What a provocative (then and now) movie! Riding a bicycle, riding a car, watching a play, everything that "should be" cut out is preserved. You don't need to experience a plot as an audience, but you always need to share that time with the protagonist, so as to arrive at an important and not important point. the "end point". He is from Hollywood, but he is fundamentally different from Hollywood. Ozu's films are balanced, not only in the composition, but also in the line between the previous...

  • Braeden 2022-03-17 09:01:10

    7/10. If the huge Coke billboard passed by Noriko and her young partner on a bicycle symbolizes American cultural influence, then the tea ceremony, the attic, and the ancient temple in the aerial shot are the gazes of the beauty of Japan, and the vicissitudes of life of the father sitting in the scene of the pre-wedding trip. Crossing the courtyard consisting of white sand and stones, the image of the ocean waves at the end expresses a kind of quiet old age mood; the Noh drama is the climax of...

  • Zechariah 2022-03-17 09:01:10

    1. Carry forward the oriental film aesthetics and bring them into full play 2. Restrained emotions, appropriate rhythm 3. Composition first aesthetics principle 4. The use of low camera positions 5. "Leave blank" like a landscape painting 6. Music assists the development of the plot 7. Setsuko Hara's face is a barometer of the development of the plot. 8. Kasa Zhizhong's subtle and restrained performance interprets the life philosophy of an oriental father. 9. Ozu's humorous lines abound. 10....

  • Brain 2022-03-16 09:01:09

    The father-daughter affair is an excuse, but it is actually a propaganda film about Japanese patriarchy after the war. The tears of the people's obsession with patriarchy have repeatedly expressed that we want to stay with you who will never change. The royal father smiled and replied that my pot has been smashed by the times. For the happiness of you, I have to put all of you on someone else's bed. It is enough to have me in my heart. See if I am very sacrificial? The narcissistic self-pity...

  • Emory 2022-03-15 09:01:11

    I don't agree with what many people say about Noriko Electra, I think Noriko is just accustomed to the model of living with her father, in which she has found a balance of life. When Noriko is about to get married, this balance is about to be broken, and the unknown married life is more fear than expectation for her. The father's love for his daughter is touching, and the broken apple peel and the sigh at the end are heart-wrenching. PS photography reflects Ozu's ingenuity...

Extended Reading
  • Gracie 2022-03-24 09:03:46

    terrifying

    The movie "Late Spring" has a strong atmosphere of Japanese traditional culture. As a movie about marriage, Yasujiro Ozu did not leave a place for the most important love in the modern concept of marriage. Therefore, in the film, what hinders Noriko from obeying her parents' orders and the words of...

  • Yessenia 2022-03-23 09:03:28

    The Realm of "Speaking and Infinity"

    Seeing the familiar faces of Kasato, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, as always, he quickly entered the world of Yasujiro Ozu.

    Ozu is a genius of rhythm. No matter how simple a story is, he can use images to immerse people into the realm of "the words are full and the meaning is endless" in ancient...

Late Spring quotes

  • Jo Onodera: Which way is Tokyo?

    Shukichi Somiya: Tokyo, that way.

    Jo Onodera: So east is this direction?

    Shukichi Somiya: No, that direction.

    Jo Onodera: Has it always been that way?

    Shukichi Somiya: Absolutely.

    [they both laugh]

  • Noriko Somiya: So which type am I?

    Shôichi Hattori: Let's see. I'd say you're not the jealous type.

    Noriko Somiya: Oh, but I am.

    Shôichi Hattori: You sure?

    Noriko Somiya: As the saying goes, when I slice pickled radish, it comes out all strung together.

    Shôichi Hattori: That's a matter of the relative interaction between you and the knife. There's no logical connection between pickled radish and jealousy, now is there?

    Noriko Somiya: So you like pickles strung together?

    Shôichi Hattori: At times I wouldn't mind them.

Late Spring

Director: Yasujirô Ozu

Language: Japanese Release date: July 21, 1972

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