Early Spring (早春, sōshun) is a 1956 film by Yasujiro Ozu about a married office worker (Ryō Ikebe) who has a fling with a typist, a fellow commuter, and the fallout that ensues with his friends and wife (Chikage Awashima). The film stars Keiko Kishi as the typist.
At 144 minutes, the film is Ozu's longest extant film.
The film starts on a typical working day in metropolitan Tokyo: office worker Shoji Sugiyama (Ryō Ikebe) wakes up to prepare to co...
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Early Spring (早春, sōshun) is a 1956 film by Yasujiro Ozu about a married office worker (Ryō Ikebe) who has a fling with a typist, a fellow commuter, and the fallout that ensues with his friends and wife (Chikage Awashima). The film stars Keiko Kishi as the typist.
At 144 minutes, the film is Ozu's longest extant film.
The film starts on a typical working day in metropolitan Tokyo: office worker Shoji Sugiyama (Ryō Ikebe) wakes up to prepare to commute to work, attended to by his wife, Masako (Chikage Awashima). The couple is childless but used to have a young son who died years ago of an illness.
During a hiking trip with friends, Shoji spends moments alone on a hitchhiked lorry with a fellow worker, typist Kaneko (Keiko Kishi), nicknamed "Goldfish" for her large eyes. After the trip Kaneko makes advances to Shoji. The two have an affair. Masako suspects something is amiss behind her back but says nothing, even when Shoji spends extra time with Kaneko, his war comrades and a dying...
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