Early Autumn (1961)
- Starring:
- Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, (more)
- Director(s):
- Yasujiro Ozu
Synopsis of Early Autumn
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. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Complete Cast of Early Autumn
- Ganjiro Nakamura - Manbei Kohayagawa
- Yoko Tsukasa - Noriko
- Chieko Naniwa - Tsune Sasaki
- Reiko Dan - Yuriko
- Hisaya Morishige - Eiichiro Isomura
- Yumi Shirakawa - Takako
- Akira Takarada - Noriko's Boy Friend
- Yuko Mochizuki
- Setsuko Hara - Akiko
- Michiyo Aratama - Fumiko
- Daisuke Kato - Yanosuke Kitagawa
- Keiju Kobayashi - Hisao
- Chishu Ryu - Farmer
- Haruko Sugimura - Shige Kato
- Haruko Togo - Teruko
- Director(s):
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Writer(s):
- Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda
- Producer(s):
- Tadahiro Teramoto, Sanezumi Fujimoto, Masakatsu Kaneko
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