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An Autumn Afternoon (1962) [NR]

Featuring:
Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada

Written by:
Kôgo Noda
Yasujirô Ozu

Directed by:
Yasujirô Ozu


Release Date:
November 18, 1962

Original Title:
秋刀魚の味

Alternate Titles:
A Rotina Tem Seu Encanto
An Autumn Afternoon
Sanma no aji
The Taste of Mackerel Pike
一个秋天的下午
꽁치의 맛

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Shochiku

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
FR: TP  PT: M/12  US: NR 

Runtime: 114

Overview from TheMovieDB

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she 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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Overview from Open Movies

In the early 60's in Tokyo, the widower Hirayama is a former captain from the Japanese navy that works as a manager of a factory and lives with his twenty-four year-old daughter Michiko and his son Kazuo in his house. His older son Koichi is married with Akiko that are compulsive consumers and Akiko financially controls their expenses. Hirayama frequently meets his old friends Kawai and Professor Horie, who is married with a younger wife, to drink in a bar. When their school teacher Sakuma comes to a reunion of Hirayama with old school mates, they learn that the old man lives with his daughter that stayed single to take care of him. Michiko lives a happy life with her father and her brother, but Hirayama feels that it is time to let her go and tries to arrange a marriage for her.

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Rankings and Honors

An Autumn Afternoon (1962) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 8.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes 95%
Metacritic 91/100
Awards Won: 4 wins & 1 nomination

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Production

Art Direction:
Shigeo Ogiwara
Tatsuo Hamada

Assistant Director:
Kôzô Tashiro

Costume Design:
Yûji Nagashima

Director:
Yasujirō Ozu

Director of Photography:
Yûharu Atsuta

Editor:
Yoshiyasu Hamamura

Original Music Composer:
Takanobu Saitō

Producer:
Shizuo Yamanouchi

Production Design:
Minoru Kanekatsu

Screenplay:
Yasujirō Ozu
Kōgo Noda

Sound Recordist:
Yoshisaburo Seno

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