Early Summer

(1951)

★ 7.8 IMDb · 214 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1951

Runtime: 125 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 小津安二郎

Cast: Сэцуко Хара, 笠智衆, 淡島千景, 三宅邦子, Итиро Сугай, Тиэко Хигасияма, 杉村春子, 井川邦子, 二本柳寛, 佐野周二

Plot

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.