An Autumn Afternoon (秋刀魚の味, Sanma no aji, "The Taste of Mackerel Pike") is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It stars Ozu regular Chishu Ryu as the patriarch of the Hirayama family who oversees the wedding of his daughter, played by Shima Iwashita. It was Ozu's last film; he died in the following year. It was shot using Agfacolor.
The credits of the film are placed before a backdrop of sketched or painted fronds instead of the ...
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An Autumn Afternoon (秋刀魚の味, Sanma no aji, "The Taste of Mackerel Pike") is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It stars Ozu regular Chishu Ryu as the patriarch of the Hirayama family who oversees the wedding of his daughter, played by Shima Iwashita. It was Ozu's last film; he died in the following year. It was shot using Agfacolor.
The credits of the film are placed before a backdrop of sketched or painted fronds instead of the usual sackcloth used in most of Ozu's films since A Story of Floating Weeds in 1934.
Shuhei Hirayama (Chishu Ryu) is an ageing widower with a 32-year-old son, Koichi (Keiji Sada), who is married, and two unmarried children – a 24-year-old daughter Michiko (Shima Iwashita) and a 21-year-old son Kazuo (Shinichirô Mikami). The ages of the children, and what they respectively remember about their mother, suggest that she died just before the end of the war, perhaps in the bombing of Tokyo in 1944-45. Since his marriage, Koichi has moved out to...
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