Late Spring

Late Spring

1949 | 1h 52m | Drama | TV-G

Brief Synopsis

Despite the urging of relatives and friends to find a husband, a young woman refuses to get married and spends all her time caring for her widowed father.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Yasujirō Ozu

CAST

Chishū Ryū

Stesuko Hara

Yumeji Tsukioka

Haruko Sugimura

Hohi Aoki

Jun Osami

PRODUCERS

Takeshi Yamamoto

WRITERS

Kōgo Noda

Yasujirō Ozu

Kazuo Hirotsu

Host Intros

01:34
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Late Spring (1949)
Intro Aired: Apr 2017
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Late Spring, 1949.

Related Videos

03:31
Late Spring (a.k.a. Banshun) 1949 -- (Movie Clip) Forgive The Delay
Clip
Opening sequence, low angles, no camera movement and little inside the frame, Noriko (Setsuko Hara) at a tea ceremony with her aunt (Haruko Sugimura), in the first film in Yasujiro Ozu's acclaimed "Noriko" trilogy, Late Spring (a.k.a. Banshun), 1949.
03:13
Late Spring (a.k.a. Banshun) 1949 -- (Movie Clip) Solo Violin Recital
Clip
Unemployed and single Noriko (Setsuko Hara) with her otherwise-betrothed friend Hattori (Kuniko Miyake), giggling over her professor father (Chishu Ryu), his boss, having tried to set them up, early in Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring (a.k.a. Banshun) 1949.

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