Late Autumn

1960 [JAPANESE]

Action / Comedy / Drama

18
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 15 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.9/10 10 6077 6.1K

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Plot summary

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.


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Reviewed by museumofdave 9 / 10

Possess Your Soul In Patience

If you have never seen a film by Yasujiro Ozu, you may have difficulty adjusting to his restrained and subtle handling of emotions; identifying Ozu as a director not known for action-packed narrative is massive understatement, as his films reflect a less hectic time and an ancient culture slowly coming to terms with change.

On the surface, this film is simply about the separation occurring as a daughter marries and a parent is left behind. With Ozu, however, carefully and consistently arranging composition, with gentle humor and a quiet observation of the human condition, there is much to be gained from reflection, from watching people realistically and patiently coming to terms with change. No one screams and throws dishes, no one bleeds copiously or falls out of a window, no one even runs across the street. My grandmother used to say "possess your soul in patience," and that said, a viewer may need to do just that with Late Autumn; the willing viewer will be amply rewarded with this amazing examination of calm resignation in the face of a life change

Reviewed by MartinHafer 7 / 10

Expertly crafted but terribly familiar.

I have seen practically every film available that were directed by Yasujirô Ozu. While he's considered by many to be a genius, I would say that he was an ultra-conservative--a man who developed some interesting techniques and story ideas but never really changed with the times. So, if you see an Ozu film from 1935, 45, 55 or the early 60s, there is an amazing sameness about them--something no other director ever accomplished. This is not criticism--this is fact. Ozu did stories about the Japanese family--and very often about widowed parents striving to get their now adult children married. And, his actual techniques didn't vary much. Although "Late Autumn" is in color (a few of his later ones were), it uses the same stationary camera and floor level for the shots. Ozu truly was a man who liked to do variations on the same themes and in the same styles! Because of this, while "Late Autumn" is expertly crafted, it really isn't innovative in the least other than making both the main characters women.

This story begins with a memorial service for a man who has been dead for several years. After the service, three friends of the deceased and his widow discuss her as well as her 24 year-old daughter. They love these women and it hurts them to see the daughter is still unmarried despite being a lovely person. So, the three schemers decide that it's their task to get the girl married--whether she likes it or not! Unfortunately, their plans don't always go as they intended and ultimately it takes one of the young lady's friends to give them some assistance.

Other than this film be very mildly comic as well as the use of the three friends, the film is yet another lovely and very deliberately paced Ozu film. If you haven't seen too many of his films, then by all means watch this one. If you have and feel you've gone down this same road many times before, they try a film by another fine director. Even die-hard fans would agree that there is an amazing similarity between this and most of Ozu's films--particularly his later ones.

Reviewed by boblipton 10 / 10

Matchmaker, Matchmaker

Setsuko Hara's husband is dead and his old college friends gather, as they often do anyway. The widow's daughter, Yôko Tsukasa, is 24, which means it's time she married. So they pick out a candidate, Keiji Sada. Only she's not interested, because she feels her mother needs her.

Well, we've seen this before in Ozu movies. In LATE SPRING, it was Miss Hara's turn to be a stubborn daughter worried about a widowed parent. Now, eleven years later, she's the widowed parent with a stubborn daughter. However, this one is pretty much as straight a comedy as Ozu turned out after the War, so just as it begins with a funeral, we can be certain it will end with a wedding. There are remarks made that are clearly asides to the audience, like every waitress and bartender apologizing for the delay in service, and the three friends who realize they need to get Miss Hara remarried and choose one of their number as the groom. Matters grow more confused, people are told about things that haven't been done, and it's the turn of Mariko Okada, as Miss Tsukasa's friend to whom she's not talking, to drag everyone together and get some straight answers out of them... and to lug the drunken men to her father's sushi joint, because he can use the business.

It's warm and funny and familiar to anyone who's seen Ozu's movies. It makes me wish I had friends and family like that.

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