Late Autumn

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Late Autumn

1960

2h 8m

Drama

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A Japanese widow (Setsuko Hara) needs to marry off her daughter, but some of the potential suitors are more interested in her.

Empire Magazine

Superb example of the gendai-geki brand of petit-bourgeois melodrama

Rated: 4/5

Feb 2, 2010

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Trevor Johnston

Time Out

Cinema that speaks to the soul.

Rated: 5/5

Feb 2, 2010

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Wendy Ide

Times (UK)

Formal and restrained - the sort of cinema that demurely keeps the audience at arm's length. But it has a mild humour.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 2, 2010

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Joshua Polanski

Boston Hassle

It’s such a simple film—as Ozu films basically promise—and that’s because life is simple.

Jul 5, 2024

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Late Autumn lacks the sublime final moments of Late Spring, but Ozu seems more relaxed, more reflective and more in control here.

Jul 16, 2010

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David Parkinson

Radio Times

Confounding stylistic expectations, he experiments with a variety of transitional devices while structuring the narrative around blocks of linked scenes.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 2, 2010

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Audience Member

Masterpiece! Ozu cannot be stopped! One of the best of the best! But ALL of Ozu's works are his best!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/11/24

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william d

I consider myself an Ozu fan, but I just couldn't get into this one. It's just a bunch of busybodies meddling into other people's lives, and the strong dramatic moments that Ozu's films normally end with are missing here.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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s r

Another simple and beautiful drama by Ozu. The subtle nuances of Japanese culture make this movie that much better. It's about people trying to help others find love, but how things can go wrong. A slow film, but it's still good. Saw on HBO.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Yasujiro Ozu directed this wonderful look at love and marriage, focusing on the relationship of a mother and daughter.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

Plotwise it's extremely similar to Late Spring, although this time with a mother-daughter rather than fatther-daughter relationship at its core. Though interesting enough it lacks the emotional power of the earlier film - perhaps because the wonderful Chishu Ryu only has a tiny cameo here, and nobody comes close to filling his shoes.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Audience Member

Tell him just to put some oinment on that itch of his.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Yasujirô Ozu

Director

Setsuko Hara

Akiko Miwa

Yoko Tsukasa

Ayako Miwa

Mariko Okada

Yukiko Sasaki

Keiji Sada

Shotaru Goto

Miyuki Kuwano

Michiko

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Synopsis

A Japanese widow (Setsuko Hara) needs to marry off her daughter, but some of the potential suitors are more interested in her.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Producer: Shizuo Yamanouchi
Screenwriter: Kôgo Noda, Yasujirô Ozu
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 15, 2020
Runtime: 2h 8m