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Early Summer

Original title: 麦秋

  • Movie
  • 1951
  • NR
  • 2h 5m

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

7.9

TMDB audience rating
7.9 out of 10 from 221 votes

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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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Cast and crew

  • Setsuko Hara

    Setsuko HaraNoriko Mamiya

  • Chishū Ryū

    Chishū RyūKoichi Mamiya

  • Chikage Awashima

    Chikage AwashimaAya Tamura

  • Kuniko Miyake

    Kuniko MiyakeFumiko Mamiya

  • Ichirō Sugai

    Ichirō SugaiShukichi Mamiya

  • Chieko Higashiyama

    Chieko HigashiyamaShige Mamiya

  • Haruko Sugimura

    Haruko SugimuraTami Yabe

  • Kuniko Igawa

    Kuniko IgawaTakako

  • Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

    Hiroshi Nihon'yanagiKenkichi Yabe

  • Shūji Sano

    Shūji SanoSotaro Satake

  • Toyo Takahashi

    Toyo TakahashiNobu Tamura

  • Seiji Miyaguchi

    Seiji MiyaguchiNishiwaki

  • Kokuten Kōdō

    Kokuten KōdōOld Uncle

  • Matsuko ShigaMari Takanashi

  • Tomoka Hasebe

    Tomoka HasebeHospital Assistant

  • Zen Murase

    Zen MuraseMinoru Mamiya

Director
Yasujirō Ozu
Writer
Yasujirō Ozu and Kōgo Noda
Music
Senji Ito
Cinematography
Yûharu Atsuta