AKA Bakushû
Director:
Yasujirô Ozu
Writers:
Kôgo Noda
Yasujirô Ozu
Director:
Yasujirô Ozu
Writers:
Kôgo Noda
Yasujirô Ozu
Noriko (Setsuko Hara), a secretary in Tokyo, lives in the extended Mamiya family at Kamakura, Kanagawa, which includes her parents Shukichi and Shige (Ichirô Sugai and Chieko Higashiyama), her elder doctor brother Koichi (Chishu Ryu), his wife Fumiko (Kuniko Miyake), and their two young sons Minoru (Zen Murase) and Isamu (Isao Shirosawa).
An elderly uncle (Kokuten Kodo) arrives from the provinces to visit Tokyo, and reminds everyone that Noriko is at an age where she should marry. At work, Noriko's boss Satake (Shûji Sano) recommends a match for her involving a forty-year-old friend, Mr Manabe, who is a businessman and an avid golfer. Her other friends are divided into two groups—the married and the unmarried—who tease one another endlessly, with Aya Tamura (Chikage Awashima) her close ally in the unmarried group.
The Mamiya family applies gentle pressure on Noriko to accept the match proposed by Satake. However, when childhood friend Kenkichi Yabe (Hiroshi Nihonyanagi), a doctor widower with a young girl, is posted to Akita, his mother Tami (Haruko Sugimura) impulsively asks Noriko to marry Kenkichi and follow them in their northward resettlement. To Tami's surprise, Noriko agrees. When Noriko reveals her decision to her family, the Mamiya family is quietly devastated. Unable to pressure her into dropping the match, which they think is a poor one owing to Kenkichi's widower status, they have to slowly re-adjust themselves to this decision.
The family now accepts Noriko's choice with quiet resignation and before Noriko moves on, the family has a last photoshoot together. Noriko's parents console themselves that Noriko and Kenkichi will move back to Tokyo in a few years' time, and the family will be reunited. Meanwhile, the parents shall move to a rural region to stay with Noriko's elderly uncle. The movie ends with a shot of a barley field ripening, which signifies the season the film is set in, early summer.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043313/
An elderly uncle (Kokuten Kodo) arrives from the provinces to visit Tokyo, and reminds everyone that Noriko is at an age where she should marry. At work, Noriko's boss Satake (Shûji Sano) recommends a match for her involving a forty-year-old friend, Mr Manabe, who is a businessman and an avid golfer. Her other friends are divided into two groups—the married and the unmarried—who tease one another endlessly, with Aya Tamura (Chikage Awashima) her close ally in the unmarried group.
The Mamiya family applies gentle pressure on Noriko to accept the match proposed by Satake. However, when childhood friend Kenkichi Yabe (Hiroshi Nihonyanagi), a doctor widower with a young girl, is posted to Akita, his mother Tami (Haruko Sugimura) impulsively asks Noriko to marry Kenkichi and follow them in their northward resettlement. To Tami's surprise, Noriko agrees. When Noriko reveals her decision to her family, the Mamiya family is quietly devastated. Unable to pressure her into dropping the match, which they think is a poor one owing to Kenkichi's widower status, they have to slowly re-adjust themselves to this decision.
The family now accepts Noriko's choice with quiet resignation and before Noriko moves on, the family has a last photoshoot together. Noriko's parents console themselves that Noriko and Kenkichi will move back to Tokyo in a few years' time, and the family will be reunited. Meanwhile, the parents shall move to a rural region to stay with Noriko's elderly uncle. The movie ends with a shot of a barley field ripening, which signifies the season the film is set in, early summer.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043313/
