Late Spring

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Late Spring
Original Japanese movie poster
Directed by	Yasujirō Ozu
Produced by	Shochiku Films Ltd.
Written by	Kazuo Hirotsu Kôgo Noda Yasujiro Ozu
Starring	Chishu Ryu Setsuko Hara Haruko Sugimura
Music by	Senji Itô
Cinematography	Yuuharu Atsuta
Distributed by	Shochiku Films Ltd. New Yorker Films
Release date(s)	September 13 1949 (Japanese release) July 21, 1972 (U.S. release)
Running time	108 min.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
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Late Spring (Japanese: 晩春, Banshun) is a 1949 Japanese film by Yasujirō Ozu. Many consider this extremely chaste film between a father and his marriageable daughter his finest achievement. It is based on Father and Daughter by Kazuo Hirotsu

The story concerns Noriko, who lives happily with her widowed father and seems in no hurry to get married. Her father, a professor, however, wants to see her settled and conspires with his sister to trick Noriko into pursuing an arranged marriage. The film stars Setsuko Hara, in her first of many collaborations with Ozu.

[edit] Cast

Chishu Ryu ... Shukichi Somiya
Setsuko Hara ... Noriko Somiya
Yumeji Tsukioka ... Aya Kitagawa
Haruko Sugimura ... Masa Taguchi
Hohi Aoki ... Katsuyoshi
Jun Usami ... Shuichi Hattori

[edit] DVD Release

In 2006, The Criterion Collection released a two-disc set with a restored high-definition digital transfer and new subtitle translations. It also includes Tokyo-Ga, Wim Wenders’ Ozu tribute, audio commentary by Richard Peña, and essays by Michael Atkinson and Donald Richie.