Late Spring(2016)

Name: Late Spring
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: Mar 4, 2016
Cast: Yasujirô Ozu

Release Date: Mar 4, 2016 | Limited

Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

View Advanced Data Watch on

Current Showtimes

orround

Sound Mix: Mono

Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1

Country of Origin: Japan

Language: Japanese

Noriko is 27 years old and is still living with her father Somiya, a widower. Noriko just recovered from an illness she developed in the war, and now the important question pops up: when will Noriko start thinking about marriage? Everybody who is important in her life tries to talk her into it: her father, her aunt, a girlfriend. But Noriko doesn't want to get married, she seems extremely happy with her life. She wants to stay with her father to take care of him. After all, she knows best of his manners and peculiarities. But Noriko's aunt doesn't want to give up. She arranges a partner for her and thinks of a plan that will convince Noriko her father can be left alone. — Arnoud Tiele (imdb@tiele.nl) In the post-WWII Japan, the twenty-seven year-old Noriko Somiya lives a simple but happy life with her fifty-seven year-old widower father, the college professor Shukichi Somiya in the suburb of Tokyo. Noriko has recovered from a disease she had during the war, and her aunt Masa Taguchi and her friend Aya Kitagawa press her to get married. However, Noriko would rather stay single and taking care of her beloved father. When Masa finds a promising fiancé to Noriko, she tells that her father will remarry sooner, forcing the reluctant Noriko to take a decision. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil