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An Autumn Afternoon

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An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

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Reviews Counted:11

Fresh:10

Rotten:1

Average Rating:7.8/10

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: An aging widower makes arrangements to have his favorite daughter married and seeks comfort in sake and old friends. The setting of modern day industrial Japan, with its neon signs, factory... An aging widower makes arrangements to have his favorite daughter married and seeks comfort in sake and old friends. The setting of modern day industrial Japan, with its neon signs, factory chimneys and rooftop golf, is lushly filmed in breathtaking color as Yasujiro Ozu constructs his last tale of the final stages of a Japanese family. This gentle film follows the father as he hears of yet another of his friend's daughters being married and fears that his daughter will never leave his side and thus, never marry, echoing Ozu's earlier film, LATE SPRING. As the arrangements are made to set his daughter out on her own course, the father reflects on his own life and finds that he is fast arriving at its end, and that he is essentially alone. One of only a handful of color films made by Ozu, this, his final film, is seen as a distillation of the themes and narrative motifs explored in 53 films and 60 years of filmmaking. [More]

Starring: Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Shin-Ichiro Mikami, Mariko Okada

Starring: Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Shin-Ichiro Mikami, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Screenwriter: Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu
Composer: Takanobu Saito

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  • Yasujiro Ozu's final film is also his final masterpiece, the gently heartbreaking story of a man's dignified resignation to both life's ever-shifting currents and society's gradual modernization. Though widower Shuhei Hirayama (Ozu's frequent leading man Chishu Ryu) has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure. As elegantly composed and achingly tender as any of the Japanese master's films, An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji ) is one of cinema's fondest farewells.
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    This view of contemporary middle class life in Japan is too leisurely paced, too sentimental in design and its humorous social comments too infrequent.

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    03/26/09
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    a relatable slice of life and, for Ozu fans, a final glimpse into a director's evolving thoughts on life and culture in his last film.

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    10/02/08
    Jason Morgan
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    What do all these subtle modifications to the otherwise similar template suggest?

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    09/28/08
    Eric Henderson
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    It's also a remarkable example of a "last film." It sums up a career's worth of work, while simultaneously looking ahead and coming to terms with new ideas.

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    09/26/08
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
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    Once again, some of the most powerful emotions evoked are due to Ozu's minimalist imagery

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    02/25/07
    John A. Nesbit
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    Only this film and Good Morning were made in colour, but Ozu applies it here with great care and precision, another mark of his sublime philosophical and cinematic continuity.

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    06/24/06
    Geoff Andrew
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    This is what a masterpiece looks like.

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    03/16/06
    Dennis Schwartz
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    No review available.

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    Emanuel Levy
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    Such a completely realized example of the Ozu art that it seems impossible he did not intend it to be a kind of testament.

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    05/09/05
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    With its beautiful camerawork and coy, subtle humour this is filmmaking at its finest and most articulate.

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    Stylistically it's one of Ozu's purest, most elemental works: no camera movement, very little movement within the frames, and hardly any apparent narrative progression.

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