Early Summer (Bakushû)

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8.2	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Yasujiro Ozu

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Setsuko Hara
Noriko Mamiya

Chishu Ryu
Koichi Mamiya

Chikage Awashima
Aya Tamura

Kuniko Miyake
Fumiko Mamiya

Ichirô Sugai
Shukichi Mamiya

Chieko Higashiyama
Shige Mamiya

Haruko Sugimura
Tami Yabe

Kuniko Igawa
Takako

Written by

Kôgo Noda

Yasujiro Ozu

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14 years, 7 months ago at May 3 9:45

Abhi

A snapshot in the lives of a family going through rapid changes after several years of a peaceful existence. The story is focused on, but not confined to the youngest daughter. She is pressured by the family to finally get married to a man proposed by her boss but has ideas of her own, something almost unheard of in a traditional Japanese family of the time. The real charm of the film is that it p... read more

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Noriko (Setsuko Hara) lives in postwar Tokyo with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her friends, her more traditionally minded family worries about the fact that she's still single at the advanced age of 28. When 40-year-old business associate Takako (Kuniko Igawa) proposes marriage, Noriko's family press her into accepting. But when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi (Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi) returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.

Release date: 2 August 1972
UPC: 037429195925

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