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Early Summer is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Yasujirō Ozu released in USA on 2 august 1972 with Setsuko Hara
Early Summer (1951)
Bakushū
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Add to a movie listEarly Summer (麦秋, Bakushū) is a 1951 film by Yasujirō Ozu. Like most of Ozu's post-war films, Early Summer deals with many issues ranging from communication problems between generations to the rising role of women in post-war Japan.
Noriko lives contentedly in an extended family household that includes her parents and her brother's family, but an uncle's visit prompts the family to find her a husband.
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Noriko (Setsuko Hara), a secretary in Tokyo, lives in the extended Mamiya family at Kamakura, Kanagawa, which includes her parents Shūkichi and Shige (Ichirō Sugai and Chieko Higashiyama), her older brother Kōichi (Chishū Ryū), a physician, his wife Fumiko (Kuniko Miyake), and their two young sons Minoru (Zen Murase) and Isamu (Isao Shirosawa).Actors
Setsuko Hara
(Noriko Mamiya)
Chishū Ryū
(Koichi Mamiya)
Chikage Awashima
(Aya Tamura)
Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎)
(Shūkichi)
Kuniko Miyake
(Fumiko Mamiya)
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