An Autumn Afternoon

1962 [JAPANESE]

Action / Drama

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 90% · 21 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 90% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 8.0/10 10 11796 11.8K

japan family relationships tokyo, japan existential loneliness widower 20th century

Plot summary

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

Director

Yasujirô Ozu Photo
Yasujirô Ozu

Top cast

Shinobu Asaji Photo
Shinobu Asaji as Youko Sasaki, hisho
Shima Iwashita Photo
Shima Iwashita as Michiko Hirayama
Eijirô Tôno Photo
Eijirô Tôno as Sakuma - The 'Gourd'
Chishû Ryû Photo
Chishû Ryû as Shuhei Hirayama
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.02 GB
986*720
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 1
1.89 GB
1480*1080
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 18

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by madcardinal 8 / 10

Let This Movie Gently Win You Over

A sensitive film which observes a widower and his family as they navigate through their days and nights in post-WWII Japan, a place where etiquette and custom are still important and individuality counts for less than it does in the U.S.A. We witness a world where unmarried women are expected to take care of their partner-less fathers and brothers.This film features excellent use of color, especially the placement of yellows and reds."An Autumn Afternoon" grows on you as you slowly, steadily work your way into the lives of Mr. Hirayama and his family; it's as if the camera were a guest gaining the acceptance of the major characters.Will Mr. Hirayama come upon his own personal autumn afternoon - a state of philosophical clarity where he can discern things soberly and make a wise and compassionate decision?A must-see for devotees of Japanese cinema, director Ozu, and those who love quiet, gentle films.
Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 8 / 10

Revisiting "Banshun" in the Swan Song of the Great Master

In the early 60's in Tokyo, the widower Hirayama (Chishû Ryû) is a former captain from the Japanese navy that works as a manager of a factory and lives with his twenty-four year-old daughter Michiko (Shima Iwashita) and his son Kazuo (Shin'ichirô Mikami) in his house. His older son Koichi (Keiji Sada) is married with Akiko (Mariko Okada) that are compulsive consumers and Akiko financially controls their expenses.Hirayama frequently meets his old friends Kawai (Nobuo Nakamura) and Professor Horie (Ryûji Kita), who is married with a younger wife, to drink in a bar. When their school teacher Sakuma (Eijiro Tono) comes to a reunion of Hirayama with old school mates, they learn that the old man lives with his daughter that stayed single to take care of him. Michiko lives a happy life with her father and her brother, but Hirayama feels that it is time to let her go and tries to arrange a marriage for her."Sanma no aji" is the last movie of the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu about his favorite theme: family and human relationship. Actually he revisits in color thirteen years later, the theme of the wonderful "Banshun". Both story lines are about an old father that realizes that he can not hold his daughter with him anymore and she needs to get married with an arranged marriage as a natural order of life in the traditional Japan. The beautiful and touching story shows also the contrast between the traditional and the newer generation formed by consumers and is supported by awesome performances and the use of magnificent camera work, with symmetrically framed images. Last but not the least, it is impressive how the characters drink in this movie. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil):"A Rotina Tem Seu Encanto" ("The Routine Has its Charm")
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