Late Autumn (1960 film)
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| Directed by | Yasujirō Ozu |
| Produced by | Shizuo Yamanouchi |
| Written by | Kôgo Noda, Yasujirō Ozu |
| Based on | novel by Ton Satomi |
| Starring | Setsuko Hara |
| Music by | Kojun Saitô |
| Cinematography | Yuuharu Atsuta |
| Edited by | Yoshiyasu Hamamura |
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| Distributed by | Shochiku Kinema Kenkyû-jo New Yorker Films (United States) |
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13 November 1960 |
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Running time
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128 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Late Autumn (秋日和 Akibiyori , lit. "A Calm Autumn Day"?) is a 1960 drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It stars Setsuko Hara and Yoko Tsukasa as a mother and daughter. It is based on a story by Ton Satomi.
Late Autumn follows the attempts of three older men to help the widow of a late friend to marry off her daughter. The daughter is less than happy at the proposals, mainly because of her reluctance to leave her mother alone. The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 33rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Three middle-aged friends and former college mates – Mamiya (Shin Saburi), Taguchi (Nobuo Nakamura) and Hirayama (Ryuji Kita) – meet up for the 7th memorial service of a late college friend, Miwa. Miwa's widow Akiko (Setsuko Hara) and 24-year-old daughter Ayako (Yoko Tsukasa) are also present. The three friends remark amongst themselves how good Akiko looks despite being in her forties.
The party chats and thinks that it is time for Ayako to get married. Taguchi tells them he has a prospective suitor for Ayako, but it later turns out the man already has a fiancée. Mamiya instead offers his employee, Goto (Keiji Sada), as another match, but Ayako confides privately in Akiko that she has no wish of getting married. Ayako, who lives alone with Akiko, is close to her mother, who teaches dressmaking.
Ayako meets Goto one day at Mamiya's office. During a hiking trip, a colleague offers to introduce him to Ayako again. Ayako and Goto begin dating, but Ayako is unwilling to get married because that will mean Akiko will live all alone. Ayako puts forward to Mamiya her theory that "romance and marriage could be separate". The three friends think that all this is an excuse and begin to speculate that Ayako will marry if Akiko remarries. The other two offer Hirayama, a widower, as Akiko's prospective remarriage partner. Hirayama warns them not to go ahead with their plan, but after discussing with his son to remarry, changes his mind.
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