Late Spring (1949) is a Japanese drama film directed by the renowned filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu. A widower and his daughter share a heartwarming yet delicate bond in “Late Spring” (1949). Professor Tanaka ...

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Veteran Japanese writer/director Yasujiro Ozu's second postwar production was 1949's Late Spring or Banshun. Chisu Ryu plays another of Ozu's realistic middle-class types, this time a widower with a ...

TUESDAY 5/21. Riverdale 10 VIP Cinema. 7 p.m. $12-$14. In the Japanese drama “Late Spring” (1949), the 27-year-old Noriko (Setsuko Hara) happily shares a home with her father, Shukichi Somiya (Chishū ...

Ozu Yasujiro, the leading Japanese film director behind classics including “Tokyo Story” and “Late Spring,” has had his double birth and death anniversaries – Ozu died in 1963 on the day of his 60th ...

Another of Ozu’s late-career color remakes, Late Autumn revisits the situation of his 1949 masterpiece Late Spring with Setsuko Hara, the filial child of the earlier film, here playing the mother of a ...