Early Summer

Overview

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Top cast

Setsuko Hara

Noriko Mamiya

Chishū Ryū

Koichi Mamiya

Chikage Awashima

Aya Tamura

Kuniko Miyake

Fumiko Mamiya

Ichirō Sugai

Shukichi Mamiya

Chieko Higashiyama

Shige Mamiya

Haruko Sugimura

Tami Yabe

Kuniko Igawa

Takako

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Kenkichi Yabe

Shūji Sano

Sotaro Satake

Toyo Takahashi

Nobu Tamura

Seiji Miyaguchi

Nishiwaki

Kokuten Kōdō

Old Uncle

M

Matsuko Shiga

Mari Takanashi

Tomoka Hasebe

Hospital Assistant

Zen Murase

Minoru Mamiya

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