Late Spring is a 1949 Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu, following a widowed university professor who, believing his adult daughter will never leave home to marry while she still cares for him, invents a story about his own remarriage to push her toward a marriage of her own. Shot in Ozu's characteristic restrained, low camera style and largely set within the family's home in Kamakura, the film explores the quiet sadness beneath a father and daughter's mutual devotion as social expectation forces their household apart. It is considered the first of Ozu's so called Noriko trilogy, all starring actress Setsuko Hara, and is widely regarded as one of the defining works of his mature period and of postwar Japanese cinema generally.
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Is the Noriko in Late Spring the same character as in Ozu's later films?
No. The three Norikos in Ozu's trilogy are distinct characters played by Setsuko Hara.
No. Late Spring is the first installment of what is called Ozu's Noriko trilogy, followed by Early Summer in 1951 and Tokyo Story in 1953. In each film Setsuko Hara plays a young woman named Noriko, but the three Norikos are distinct, unrelated characters. What links them is mainly their status as single women in postwar Japan.
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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.
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Late Spring is a 1949 Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu, following a widowed university professor who, believing his adult daughter will never leave home to marry while she still cares for him, invents a story about his own remarriage to push her toward a marriage of her own.
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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.
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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.
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