Fresh
The fatal bargain of old age has rarely been observed as sharply as in Yasujiro Ozu's last film, from 1962.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
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An Autumn Afternoon
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Yasujirō Ozu Director
- Chishū Ryū as Shuhei Hirayama
- Shima Iwashita as Michiko Hirayama
- Keiji Sada as Koichi
- Mariko Okada as Akiko
- Teruo Yoshida as Yutaka Miura
- Noriko Maki as Fusako Taguchi
- Shinichirō Mikami as Kazuo
- Nobuo Nakamura as Shuzo Kawai
- Eijirō Tōno as Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
- Kuniko Miyake as Nobuko
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
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This view of contemporary middle class life in Japan is too leisurely paced, too sentimental in design and its humorous social comments too infrequent.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Only this film and Good Morning were made in colour, but Ozu applies it here with great care and precision, another mark of his sublime philosophical and cinematic continuity.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Stylistically it's one of Ozu's purest, most elemental works: no camera movement, very little movement within the frames, and hardly any apparent narrative progression.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Such a completely realized example of the Ozu art that it seems impossible he did not intend it to be a kind of testament.
New York Times
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