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Early Summer

1951 · 125 min

A gentle, quietly observant drama that unfolds with warmth and melancholy, inviting you to sit with a family's small joys and disappointments.

Directed by: Yasujirō Ozu
Genres: Drama
Starring: Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū, Chikage Awashima

Overview: 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.

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Directed by: Yasujirō Ozu
Genres: Drama
Starring: Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū, Chikage Awashima

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
gender
identity
trauma
love
Places: big city
home
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	0
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Humour	4
Realism	9
Romance	4
Tension	3
Darkness	3
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Yasujirō Ozu
Written by: Kōgo Noda, Yasujirō Ozu
Starring: Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirō Sugai, Chieko Higashiyama, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Igawa
Music: Senji Ito
Cinematography: Yûharu Atsuta
Runtime: 125 min
Country: Japan
Languages: English, Japanese

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