An Autumn Afternoon

(1962)

★ 7.9 IMDb · 333 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1962

Runtime: 113 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 小津安二郎

Cast: 笠智衆, 岩下志麻, Кэйдзи Сада, Марико Окада, 吉田輝雄, 牧紀子, 三上真一郎, 中村伸郎, 東野英治郎, 三宅邦子

Plot

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

In the early 60's in Tokyo, the widower Hirayama 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 and his son Kazuo in his house. His older son Koichi is married with Akiko that are compulsive consumers and Akiko financially controls their expenses. Hirayama frequently meets his old friends Kawai and Professor Horie, who is married with a younger wife, to drink in a bar. When their school teacher Sakuma 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.