Director: Ozu, Yasujiro

Key actors Ryu, Chishu; Hara, Setsuko; Tsukioka, Yumeji

Year 1949

Language Japanese (English sub.)

Certificate U

Duration 108 mins

Country JPN

Genre Drama: Foreign Language

Format Blu-ray

Dual format package including both DVD and Blu-ray of the title.

[This high definition Blu-ray disc must be viewed on Blu-ray equipment]

Tokyo Story director Yasujiro Ozu s hugely influential and award-winning masterpiece, Late Spring, is a tender meditation on family politics, sacrifice and the status quo. Noriko (Setsuko Hara) and her father, Professor Somiya (Chishu Ryu) live together in perfect harmony, but old certainties are put at risk when an interfering aunt raises the question of marriage. Introducing Ozu s popular Noriko character, Late Spring poignantly examines the gradual compromise between modernity and tradition.

Contains full length feature The Only Son, Ozu s first sound film, as an extra