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Early Summer

Early Summer

1951 · 125 min · JA · NR · 7.8 (149 votes)
Dir. Yasujirō Ozu · Starring Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirō Sugai, Chieko Higashiyama · Music Senji Ito
Drama

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

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A quiet, contemplative drama that evokes the subtle anxieties and quiet hopes of post-war Japan. It feels like a gentle, melancholic sigh, exploring the pressures of tradition and the search for personal fulfillment within family expectations.

melancholicwistfulgentlenostalgicslow-burnclassic Japanese cinemaslice-of-lifedomestic dramasocietal pressurefinding oneselffamily expectationspost-war anxieties
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marriage proposalfamily relationshipsmatchmakingtokyojapanpost world war iipost war japanfamily issuesunmarried woman
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