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Film · 0 connectionsEarly Summer (1951)
- Drama
- 125 min
- AL age guide
- ★ 7.8/10 from 215 ratings
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 byYasujirō Ozu
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