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An Autumn Afternoon

1962 · 113 min

Quiet, gently funny domestic scenes that slowly accumulate into a piercing ache of loneliness and letting go.

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.
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 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
  • aging
  • parenthood
  • isolation
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • workplace
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour3
Realism9
Romance2
Tension2
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Yasujirō Ozu
Written by
Kōgo Noda, Yasujirō Ozu
Starring
Chishū Ryū, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, Teruo Yoshida, Noriko Maki, Shinichirō Mikami, Nobuo Nakamura
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
113 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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