The read
Scores higher than 93% of the 813 1960s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Metacritic91/100
335 audience votes
Key crew
- Yasujirō OzuDirector
- Kōgo NodaScreenplay
- Yasujirō OzuScreenplay
- Takanobu SaitōOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Chishū RyūShuhei Hirayama
- Shima IwashitaMichiko Hirayama
- Keiji SadaKoichi
- Mariko OkadaAkiko
- Teruo YoshidaYutaka Miura
- Noriko MakiFusako Taguchi
- Shinichirō MikamiKazuo
- Nobuo NakamuraShuzo Kawai
- Eijirō TōnoSakuma, The 'Gourd'
- Kuniko MiyakeNobuko
- Kyôko KishidaMadame Kaoru
- Ryuji KitaTamako
Stills
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Themes
japanfamily relationshipstokyo, japanwidower20th centuryshōwa era (1926-89)japanese economic miracle
The Best Movies of 1962
An Autumn Afternoon is #8 of 58
