TMDb7.8 / 10

Early Summer (1951)

Name: Early Summer
Director: Yasujirō Ozu
Genre: Drama
Released: 1951-10-03
Duration: 125 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirō Sugai

125 min · Japan · Dir. Yasujirō Ozu

Drama 1951 movies

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.