The End of Summer
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Theatrical poster for The End of Summer (1961)
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| Directed by | Yasujirō Ozu |
| Produced by |
Sanezumi Fujimoto Masakatsu Kaneko Tadahiro Teramoto |
| Written by |
Kōgo Noda Yasujirō Ozu |
| Starring |
Ganjirō Nakamura Setsuko Hara Yoko Tsukasa |
| Music by | Toshiro Mayuzumi |
| Cinematography | Asakazu Nakai |
| Edited by | Koichi Iwashita |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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103 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | English |
The End of Summer (小早川家の秋 Kohayagawa-ke no aki, lit. "Autumn for the Kohayagawa family"?) is a 1961 film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was his penultimate; only An Autumn Afternoon (1962) followed it.
Ganjirō Nakamura plays the patriarch of the Kohayagawa family, who runs a sake brewery company. Setsuko Hara, Michiyo Aratama and Yoko Tsukasa play his daughters. Chishū Ryū, a long-time collaborator of Ozu, has a small cameo as a farmer towards the end of the film. Most of the action takes place in Kyoto.
Manbei Kohayagawa (Ganjirō Nakamura) is the head of a small sake brewery company at Kyoto, with two daughters and a widowed daughter-in-law. His daughter-in-law and youngest daughter, Akiko (Setsuko Hara) and Noriko (Yoko Tsukasa), stay together in Osaka. Akiko helps out at an art gallery and has a son Minoru. Noriko, unmarried, works as a salaried office worker. Manbei's other daughter, Fumiko (Michiyo Aratama), lives with him. Her husband, Hisao, helps at the brewery and they have a young son Masao.
Manbei asks his brother-in-law Kitagawa (Daisuke Katō) to find Akiko a husband, and Kitagawa lets Akiko meet a friend Isomura Eiichirou (Hisaya Morishige), a widower, at a pub. Isomura is enthusiastic about the match but Akiko is hesitant. Manbei also asks Kitagawa to arrange a matchmaking session for his youngest daughter, Noriko.
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