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An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

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Reviews Counted: 5 Fresh: 5  Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.2/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

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 chimneys and rooftop golf, is lushly filmed in breathtaking color as Yasujiro Ozu constructs his last... 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]

Genre: Foreign Films

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

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

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Sep 30, 2008

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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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    Once again, some of the most powerful emotions evoked are due to Ozu's minimalist imagery

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    This is what a masterpiece looks like.

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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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    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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