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Plot

The highly accomplished Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu demonstrates his stylistic touch for deceptive simplicity, rapier wit, and nuances of melancholy in this well-wrought drama about a man in the declining years of his life. Manbei Kohayagawa (Ganjiro Nakamura) has a rich life on three different fronts. He is the head of a brewery that is having problems at the moment, the head of a family in which one widowed daughter needs his help in finding a new mate and the other needs him to help her make the right choice in a future spouse. Manbei has a strong devil-may-care streak and his solution to his burdens at the moment is to look up his old mistress and resume a relationship with her. His decision has unexpected consequences for himself and his family.
MPAA Rating:
Not Yet Rated
Genre(s):
Drama
Run Time:
103min.
Theatrical Release Date:
07/31/2005
Distributor(s):
Toho
Director(s):
Yasujiro Ozu
Starring:
James Cromwell , Ganjiro Nakamura , Magda Szubanski , Setsuko Hara , Christine Cavanaugh
Themes:
Eccentric Families,Fathers and Daughters
Tone:
Affectionate,Melancholy,Understated
Keywords:
Japan,brewery,daughter,death,extramarital-affair,family,father,heart-attack,honor [recognition],mistress,paternity,running,visit
Language:
Japanese