Late spring
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German title | Late spring |
Original title | Banshun |
Country of production | Japan |
original language | Japanese |
Publishing year | 1949 |
length | 108 minutes |
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Director | Ozu Yasujirō |
script | Kazuo Hirotsu (idea), Kōgo Noda , Yasujiro Ozu |
music | Senji Itō |
camera | Yūharu Atsuta |
cut | Yoshiyasu Hamamura |
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Late Spring ( Japanese 晩 春 , Banshun ) is a Japanese film by director Yasujiro Ozu from 1949. In Germany, the drama was first broadcast on March 15, 1972 on ARD .
action
The widowed professor Shukichi Somiya has a marriageable daughter named Noriko. However, Noriko would rather live with her father because she doesn't want to leave him alone. To make it easier for her to leave her father's house, Somiya fakes a relationship with a younger woman.
background
Late spring is the first part of the so-called Noriko trilogy (in addition to late spring also wheat autumn and the trip to Tokyo ). Chishū Ryū and Setsuko Hara star in all three films, even if they are not the same people. After Late Spring was very successful, the Shochiko manufacturing company wanted to produce a similar story of Ozu.
The family drama is one of the director's most typical films. You can call Late Spring the archetype of the repetitive themes of Ozu's films, so to speak.
Reviews
"Work designed with great sensitivity that deals with conflict situations within the Japanese family."
Awards
Late spring won the Kinema Junpo Awards for Best Picture in 1950. In addition, the film won four prizes at the Mainichi Eiga Concours in 1950: best film, best director (Yasujiro Ozu), best actress (Setsuko Hara) and best screenplay (Kōgo Noda and Yasujiro Ozu).
Web links
- Late spring in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Late spring atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Review by Janis El-Bira on www.filmzentrale.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Late spring. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 14, 2017 .