FILM

Early Summer (1951)

Name: Early Summer
Director: Yasujirō Ozu
Genre: Drama
Released: 1951-10-03
Cast: Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirō Sugai

Film · 1951 · 125 min · NR · Drama

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Starring Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirō Sugai, Chieko Higashiyama, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Igawa

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Release dates in the United States

In cinemas	2 August 1972
Digital release	Not listed
Physical release	Not listed
First release anywhere	3 October 1951

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