Late Spring

晩春

1949

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Director:

Yasujirō Ozu

Studio:

Shochiku

Starring:

Chishū Ryū, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura, Jun Usami

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Twenty-seven-year-old Noriko lives contentedly with her widowed father, a professor, and has no wish to marry. Worried she will end up alone, he pretends that he intends to remarry, and she reluctantly agrees to an arranged marriage.