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AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON

原題
秋刀魚の味
Original Title
Sanma no Aji
Production Year
1960
Running Time
113min
Genre
Color
Color
Director
Cast
Shima IWASHITA
Chishu RYU
Keiji SADA
Mariko OKADA
Shinichiro MIKAMI

Introduction
The 54th film by Ozu, shot from August to November 1962. In February 1962, during Ozu's and Noda's preparation of the next screenplay in the mountain resort Tateshina, Ozu's mother died at the age of 96. Ozu was very attached to his mother, more so because he remained a bachelor. He wrote the screenplay for AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON with sorrow and loneliness in his heart.

*Digitally restored DCP is available*
Synopsis
In the early 60's in Tokyo, the widower Hirayama has been living comfortably for years with his twenty-four year-old daughter Michiko and his younger son Kazuo in his house. Although Hirayama was convinced that Michiko isn't ready for marriage, the old man changes his mind when he has long drinking sessions with his old friends and the school teacher nicknamed "the Gourd"; they learn that the teacher lives with his middle-aged daughter who has taken care of him and missed the chance to marry when young, and it makes Hirayama accept that it is time to let Michiko go and tries to arrange a marriage for her.