"Happiness comes only through effort" - Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu)
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I feel about this movie the way the daughter feels about her father.
It's an amazing experience. I cannot fathom its magic any more than I can resist the spell it casts over me.
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lovely if sad film!
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Late Spring is my favorite Ozu film and an all-time favorite overall. Did Setsuko Hara ever give a mediocre performance? She puts most actresses to absolute shame. It's hard to take the melodramatic screaming and tantrums of Hollywood style acting seriously after watching her for even a few moments. If I was an actor, she'd be someone I'd study quite frequently.
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@sfcx92 Also see "Early Summer" its my first Ozu and my favorite :)
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@kassandrasduplex you right!!! sadly you had to watch these either, bootleg, or in ifc centres, or foreinger movie theters, my favoritie movies, and i called my daugther her midle name iralda noriko, (for the gorgeous actress i felt in love in the movie)
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My absolute favorite film. It hold it's own with any art ever created by mankind. If you haven't see it, do so before you die. Yes, it's that magnificent.
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So achingly sad, their last trip together before the daughter gets married. All parents will feel this scene.
The great Setsuko Hara and the almost as great Chishû Ryû doing their best to open the flood gates. And succeeding.
4:08 when her bowed head drops even further: like an arrow through the heart.
One of the best scenes in film history... it is of such profoundness and subtle beautiful.
Have you seen 24 eyes or Tragedy of Japan by Keisuke Kinoshita? My favorite directors ever: Ozu, Kinoshita & Kurosawa.
¡Thank you for posting this video!
Lepidos 1 year ago 8
Incredible that such searing dialogue about family life, marriage and happiness could come from a man who never married and never had such a life. Sad his films were ignored by much of the West during his lifetime.
kassandrasduplex 1 year ago 5