An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

19621h 54mdir. Yasujirō OzuJapaneseJapandrama film

With Chishū Ryū, Mariko Okada, Daisuke Katō, Eijirō Tōno, Haruko Sugimura, Keiji Sada, Kyōko Kishida, Shima Iwashita

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

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An Autumn Afternoon (Japanese: 秋刀魚の味, Hepburn: Sanma no Aji; "The Taste of Sanma") is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu for Shochiku Films. It stars Ozu regular Chishū Ryū as the patriarch of the Hirayama family who eventually realises that he has a duty to arrange a marriage for his daughter Michiko (Shima Iwashita). It was Ozu's last film; he died the following year on the day he turned 60.

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