Paris Asia Film Series, "Late Spring"

Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Submitted by Andrea on July 22, 2009 - 9:57pm

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This "heartbreaking postwar masterpiece" (Scott Tobias, The Onion) by Yasujiro Ozu explores the relationship between a widowed father and his adult daughter as they negotiate the changing social pressures of a modernizing Japan. He wants her to marry so she won't be alone after his death, but she is steadfast in her desire to remain single and care for him. Elegantly told in Ozu's uniquely pensive style, this tremendously moving film is one of his most revered and influential. (Dir.: Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1949, 108 min., B&W, Japanese with English subtitles)