Early Summer (1951)

Name: Early Summer
Genre: Drama
Released: 1951-10-03
Duration: 125 min
Cast: Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirō Sugai

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.

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Released 1951-10-03 · 125 min · Drama

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Cast

Setsuko Hara as Noriko Mamiya
Chishū Ryū as Koichi Mamiya
Chikage Awashima as Aya Tamura
Kuniko Miyake as Fumiko Mamiya
Ichirō Sugai as Shukichi Mamiya
Chieko Higashiyama as Shige Mamiya
Haruko Sugimura as Tami Yabe
Kuniko Igawa as Takako
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as Kenkichi Yabe
Shūji Sano as Sotaro Satake
Toyo Takahashi as Nobu Tamura
Seiji Miyaguchi as Nishiwaki
Kokuten Kōdō as Old Uncle
Matsuko Shiga as Mari Takanashi
Tomoka Hasebe as Hospital Assistant