Late Spring Comments

  • Reagan 2022-09-20 00:06:34

    Do people live for ordinary beauty or high scenery? It seems that if you want everything, you won't get...

  • Cleve 2022-09-19 12:34:35

    9. There are few Ozu movies with sports scenes, the road of forced marriage for older women. I like the ending of peeling the apple, only those who have experienced the loneliness and loneliness of a person...

  • Caterina 2022-09-04 06:17:40

    When I first started, I was still thinking, how can the same theme surpass Qiu Rihe? After all, the structure can't be as delicate as it is. After reading it, I realized that in fact, sometimes such an arrangement is not needed. That kind of atmosphere and emotion may not be better conveyed because of the too compact plot. When I saw that flock of pigeons flying up on New Year's Eve, I had an indescribable feeling in my...

  • Tianna 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    The 4K restoration image quality is excellent, and I watched the Blu-ray version in Hengshan Heji. Another story about marrying a girl, Hara Setsuko is so fat and beautiful. I especially like those empty shots, such as a few magazines sliding down from the stack of books, showing a sense of agility in a certain conformity. However, those family concepts are still traditional and there is no modernity at...

  • Brenna 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    In each of them there is a unique expression of love in which care or care varies. The most impressive scene was when the father who returned from the tavern after marrying Noriko cut off most of the apples and couldn't continue. Another insight is about the essence of happiness. Setsuko Hara gives the character a cheerful and restrained temperament, which is really...

  • Davonte 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    @SIFF2016 If you work so hard to marry a girl, you will be sprayed at the moment. Both the composition camera and the perspective serve the content, but the back shots when the characters are talking are really uncomfortable. Can such a breakthrough approach really bring out a bland but powerful theme? Anyway, I watched the camera all the way. The only thing I appreciate is that just one line advances the plot neatly, and it is determined not to use the picture, so refreshing! The voice this...

  • Providenci 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    2.5 Change your mentality. Setsuko Hara's constant fake smile, unnatural dialogue rhythm, and a soundtrack full of movies, the weird rhythm formed by these illusions is quite impressive. It is suggested that other directors learn from Ozu how to slow down a movie after discarding the elements that make it white and...

  • Clinton 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    I shed tears again in the paragraph about sending the daughter to marry. This plot is so similar to "The Taste of Saury", can it be said that Ozu has been filming the same story for 20 years? The same is the setting where the son-in-law/husband does not appear, I like it very much. Setsuko Hara is a big mouth girl! So pretty in a wedding dress! Sure enough, the clip that appeared in Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Good Boys and Good Girls" is this one, the paragraph of Noriko riding a bicycle. Hou's...

  • Aidan 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    4K restoration, indeed, "Late Spring" and "Mai Qiu" should really be enjoyed together. It also happened in Kitakamakura, the same original cast, and it was also about the marriage problems of older, beautiful and young people. The late spring approach was more conservative. The story was clear, simple and straightforward, with a slightly sad tone. The traditional concept of marriage and love is not worth mentioning, and the deep bond between father and daughter ("Electra complex"?) is more like...

  • Alfreda 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    It is indeed the exact same routine as "Autumn Harmony". The aunt who found the wallet died of laughter. How good is Miwa's widow, Ozu-style "I am not against remarriage, but I am firmly against my protagonist's remarriage", hum. Yueqiu Menglu is cute, ah, it's my Baoji Hua...

Extended Reading

Late Spring quotes

  • Aya Kitagawa: What's there to think about? Go on, marry him. Good men are rare these days. Grab him.

    Noriko Somiya: But I don't like it.

    Aya Kitagawa: What?

    Noriko Somiya: Arranged marriage.

    Aya Kitagawa: Don't be picky. You'd never marry unless someone arranged it.

    Noriko Somiya: But...

    Aya Kitagawa: It's true, isn't it? If you found someone you liked, would you walk up and propose? You're not that bold. You'd just blush and squirm in your seat.

    Noriko Somiya: That's true.

    Aya Kitagawa: An arranged marriage suits someone like you.

  • Masa Taguchi: Maybe some detail is bothering her?

    Shukichi Somiya: Like what?

    Masa Taguchi: Like his - name.

    Shukichi Somiya: Kumataro Satake?

    Masa Taguchi: Kumataro - "Bear Boy."

    Shukichi Somiya: What's wrong with it? It sounds tough. If anybody's old fashioned, it's you. That wouldn't bother her.

    Masa Taguchi: But doesn't it make you think of hairy chests and things? That bothers young ladies more than you imagine. And what should I call him if they get married? "Kumataro" sounds like a mountain bandit, "Kuma-san" is used for common bumpkins, and "Kuma-chan" sounds like "baby bear."

    Shukichi Somiya: Well, we have to call him something.

    Masa Taguchi: That's the point. I think I'll call him "Ku-chan."

    Shukichi Somiya: "Little Vacuum"?