A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.
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- TriviaIn 1961, Late Autumn (1960) (Akibiyori) was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 33rd Academy Awards®, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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Shuzo Taguchi: She really is beautiful.
Seiichiro Hirayama: I love talking to girls of that age.
Shuzo Taguchi: And the daughter's not bad either.
Soichi Mamiya: Ah, you meant her mother?
Shuzo Taguchi: Hasn't changed a bit.
Soichi Mamiya: Truly beautiful.
Seiichiro Hirayama: Yes, she is. But her daughter is nice too.
Soichi Mamiya: Sure, she's nice. On the other hand, Akiko is pst 40 already.
Shuzo Taguchi: If given a choice, I'd take the mother. A fine woman.
Soichi Mamiya: Yes, she is.
Seiichiro Hirayama: Are you serious?
Shuzo Taguchi: Absolutely. It's true what they say about men with beautiful wives dying young.
Soichi Mamiya: Miwa paid a steep price for his good fortune. She's grown even more attractive recently.
Shuzo Taguchi: You noticed too?
Soichi Mamiya: How could I not?
Shuzo Taguchi: You got to be dense not to feel it.
Seiichiro Hirayama: I feel it. Just not as much as you guys.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist (2021)
- Soundtracks1st Movement
from "Piano Sonata No.11 A Major, K.331"
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
At the scene of a dressmaking school
Yasujirô Ozu's remaking of "Late Spring", which is based on a novel written by Kôgo Noda called "Chichi to musume" and Ton Satomi about pressures to a 27 year old daughter to marry despite her being objectionable. In this case, the time is 1960, and the environment is more current except that the roles are now reversed, which in the 1949 original theatrical version, it was the daughter feeling pressure by her father, but in this version it's the mother who's played by Setsuko Hara who was also in the original, playing as the daughter felt pressured to marry by her father's associates. Anyways, in this scenario, it's starts off with the aftermath of a funeral, 27 year old Ayako Miwa and her mother Akiko Miwa (Setsuko Hara) have only each other now that that Akiko's husband of the family has been buried. And while there, some of her father's closest working associates see that Akiko's daughter is old enough to get married since she's 27 years old. They then try to accomplish this task by using deception, manipulation and lies to see to it that she settles down even though her mother would be lonely without her, and that the three grown men setting this up already have spouses and servants living with them. As much as I love to see Japanese icon actress Setsuko Hara in color instead of in black and white, this film still felt long since the film excuses the actions of it's working associates about marrying off a 27 or 28 year old woman who's not even related to any of them since theirs an adage in Japan that single girls will become 'old maids' which is only a myth. And instead of handling their own their own problems, why does it concern them to have her get married as quickly as possible which the film doesn't address this question as actress Hara was allowed to put in some of her two cents in, but only for so many scenes. Not as good as "Tokyo Story" since the situations feels much more forced and imposed upon than 1949 "Late Spring".
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- Gross worldwide
- $17,781
- Runtime2 hours 8 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1