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A Balasaur Score of 87 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes 100%, Metacritic 94/100. Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 95% of the 659 1950s drama movies in this catalog. Streaming on Max.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
214 audience votes
Key crew
- Yasujirō OzuDirector
- Senji ItoOriginal Music Composer
- Kōgo NodaScreenplay
- Yasujirō OzuScreenplay
Cast
- Setsuko HaraNoriko Mamiya
- Chishū RyūKoichi Mamiya
- Chikage AwashimaAya Tamura
- Kuniko MiyakeFumiko Mamiya
- Ichirō SugaiShukichi Mamiya
- Chieko HigashiyamaShige Mamiya
- Haruko SugimuraTami Yabe
- Kuniko IgawaTakako
- Hiroshi Nihon'yanagiKenkichi Yabe
- Shūji SanoSotaro Satake
- Toyo TakahashiNobu Tamura
- Seiji MiyaguchiNishiwaki
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Themes
The Best Japanese Drama Movies
Early Summer is #9 of 60
