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Early Summer

Early Summer

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Early Summer

1951

2h 5m

7.9(207 votes)

Drama

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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10 featured cast members

Starring

Setsuko Hara

Setsuko Hara

Noriko Mamiya

Chishū Ryū

Chishū Ryū

Koichi Mamiya

Chikage Awashima

Chikage Awashima

Aya Tamura

Kuniko Miyake

Kuniko Miyake

Fumiko Mamiya

Ichirō Sugai

Ichirō Sugai

Shukichi Mamiya

Chieko Higashiyama

Chieko Higashiyama

Shige Mamiya

Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura

Tami Yabe

Kuniko Igawa

Kuniko Igawa

Takako

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Kenkichi Yabe

Shūji Sano

Shūji Sano

Sotaro Satake

Creative team

Directed by: Yasujirō Ozu
Written by: Kōgo Noda
Yasujirō Ozu
Produced by: Takeshi Yamamoto

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