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JAPAN · 1951

Early Summer

Yasujiro Ozu
Japanese Golden Age marriage and tradition postwar Japan family pressure women's independence romantic conflict
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Synopsis

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.

Year1951
CountryJapan
DirectorYasujiro Ozu
MovementJapanese Golden Age
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