Early Summer
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.
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Cast
16 people
Setsuko Hara
Noriko Mamiya
Known for
Tokyo Story
Late Spring
Chishū Ryū
Koichi Mamiya
Known for
Tokyo Story
Late Spring
Chikage Awashima
Aya Tamura
Known for
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Early Spring
Kuniko Miyake
Fumiko Mamiya
Known for
Tokyo Story
Good Morning
Ichirō Sugai
Shukichi Mamiya
Known for
Sansho the Bailiff
The Life of Oharu
Chieko Higashiyama
Shige Mamiya
Known for
Tokyo Story
The Idiot
Haruko Sugimura
Tami Yabe
Known for
Tokyo Story
Late Spring
Kuniko Igawa
Takako
Known for
Twenty-Four Eyes
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Kenkichi Yabe
Known for
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Repast
Shūji Sano
Sotaro Satake
Known for
There Was a Father
A Hen in the Wind
Toyo Takahashi
Nobu Tamura
Known for
Tokyo Story
Late Spring
Seiji Miyaguchi
Nishiwaki
Known for
Seven Samurai
Shōgun
Yasujirō Ozu Director · Kōgo Noda Screenplay Senji Ito Composer
United States release August 2, 1972 · Produced in Japan · Languages English, Japanese
Production
Shochiku
Production
Shochiku Ofuna Film Studio
Production
Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original title
麦秋
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
English · Japanese
Release dates
Japan · October 3, 1951
Theatrical
United States · August 2, 1972
Theatrical
France
July 1, 1992 · Theatrical · Visa CNC 80684
Netherlands
September 20, 2008 · Physical · DVD
June 16, 2016 · Theatrical · Re-release
United Kingdom
September 28, 1991 · TV · BBC Two
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