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Late Spring

Late Spring (晩春, Banshun) is a 1949 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and written by Ozu and Kogo Noda, based on the short novel Father and Daughter (Chichi to musume) by the 20th-century novelist and critic Kazuo Hirotsu. The film was written and shot during the Allied Powers' Occupation of Japan and was subject to the Occupation's official…

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Based on
Father and Daughter (1939 novel) by Kazuo Hirotsu
Cinematography
Yūharu Atsuta
Country
Japan
Directed by
Yasujirō Ozu
Distributed by
Shochiku
Edited by
Yoshiyasu Hamamura

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Edges121
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Avg. degree1.98
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related to Reception and reputation of the film in Japan · 25
Late Spring → Allied, Asahi Shinbun, Basing, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film, Best Screenplay, Both Shin Yukan, Generally, Hochi Shinbun, In, Japan, Japanese, Kinema Junpo, Kyoto, Mainichi Film Awards, Mainichi Shinbun, Ozu, September, Setsuko Hara
related to Reception and reputation of the film outside Japan · 25
Late Spring → Archer Winsten, Because, Canby, Charles Michener, Hara, He, John Simon, Judith Crist, July, New York, New York-based, New Yorker Films, Newsweek, North America, Of, Ozu, Ryu, Stanley Kauffmann, Stuart Byron, The New Republic
related to The film as a critique of marriage · 21
Late Spring → As, Did, Early Summer, Ebert, Great Movies, He, In, It, Jane Austen, Noriko, Noriko's, Not, Ozu, Rather, Roger Ebert, The, These, Tokyo Story, With, Wood
related to External links · 19
Late Spring → AllMovieLate Spring, Bresson, Criterion Collection, Dreyer, Film, Home, IMDbLate Spring, Japanese, Japanese Movie Database, Michael Atkinson, Ozu, Paul Schrader's, Rotten TomatoesTributes, Russ McClay, Spanish, TCM Movie Database, Transcendental Style, Yasujiro Ozu, YouTubeBanshun
related to Films inspired by Late Spring · 19
Late Spring → Akiko, Daughter's Marriage, December, Equinox Flower, For, Hara, Higanbana, Ichikawa, In, It, Japanese, Kon Ichikawa, Late Autumn, Musume, One, Other Ozu, Ozu's, The, WOWOW
related to Editing · 18
Late Spring → According, But, He, Kaishain, Office Worker, Ozu, Ozu's, Richie, Sato, Since Ozu, Summer, The, The End, The Life, The Only Son, This, Tokyo Chorus, Tomo Shimogawara
related to Home media · 15
Late Spring → Chinese, DVD, English, English-subtitled, Hong Kong-based, In, Japan, New Yorker Video, November, NTSC, Ozu's, Panorama, Region, Shochiku, VHS
related to Ozu's use of actors · 15
Late Spring → As, Aunt Masa, Chishu Ryu, Haruko Sugimura, He, Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Noriko, Once, Ozu, Ozu's, Sato, Sugimura, Virtually, You
Starring · 8
Late Spring → Chishū Ryū, Haruko Sugimura, Jun Usami, Kuniko Miyake, Masao Mishima, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Yōko Katsuragi
related to Ozu's collaborators · 8
Late Spring → Chishu Ryu, However, Kogo Noda, On Late Spring, Ozu, Ozu's, Setsuko Hara, Yuharu Atsuta

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Late SpringBased onFather and Daughter (1939 novel) by Kazuo Hirotsu1.00infobox
Late SpringCinematographyYūharu Atsuta1.00infobox
Late SpringCountryJapan1.00infobox
Late SpringDirected byYasujirō Ozu1.00infobox
Late SpringDistributed byShochiku1.00infobox
Late SpringEdited byYoshiyasu Hamamura1.00infobox
Late SpringKanji晩春1.00infobox
Late SpringLanguageJapanese1.00infobox
Late SpringMusic bySenji Itō1.00infobox
Late SpringProduced byTakeshi Yamamoto1.00infobox
Late SpringProduction companyShochiku1.00infobox
Late SpringRelease dateSeptember 19, 1949 (1949-09-19) (Japan)1.00infobox
Late SpringRevised HepburnBanshun1.00infobox
Late SpringRunning time108 minutes1.00infobox
Late SpringScreenplay byKogo Noda1.00infobox
Late SpringScreenplay byYasujirō Ozu1.00infobox
Late SpringStarringSetsuko Hara1.00infobox
Late SpringStarringYumeji Tsukioka1.00infobox
Late SpringStarringKuniko Miyake1.00infobox
Late SpringStarringHaruko Sugimura1.00infobox
Late SpringStarringYōko Katsuragi1.00infobox
Late SpringStarringJun Usami1.00infobox
Late SpringStarringMasao Mishima1.00infobox
Late SpringStarringChishū Ryū1.00infobox
Late SpringTranscriptionsTranscriptionsRevised HepburnBanshun1.00infobox
Late Springis amarriage of the heroine to a man she has met only once through a single arranged meeting0.90text
Late Springis afirst instance0.90text
Late Springis afilm about two people who desperately do not believe this0.90text

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