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Early Summer (1951)

Early Summer (1951)

Drama
Release Date: 1951, October 3
Directors: Yasujirō Ozu
Countries: Japan
Production: Shochiku, Shochiku, Shochiku, Shochiku Ofuna Film Studio, Shochiku Ofuna Film Studio, Shochiku Ofuna Film Studio
Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi, Kokuten Kōdō, Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake, Toyo Takahashi, Zen Murase, Tomoka Hasebe, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi, Ichirō Sugai

Overview:

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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