Early Spring

Name: Early Spring
Genre: Drama
Released: September 25, 1974
Duration: 145 min
Rating: 84
Cast: Chikage Awashima, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Keiko Kishi, Kumeko Urabe

1974

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Shochiku | Release Date: September 25, 1974

Starring: Chikage Awashima, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Keiko Kishi, Kumeko Urabe, Masami Taura, Ryô Ikebe, Sô Yamamura, Takako Fujino, Teiji Takahashi

Summary: A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 145 min

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Michael Wilmington

An unusual subject for Ozu, white-collar adultery, handled with his customary deep observation. [28 Jan 2005, p.C2]

IndieWire Oliver Lyttelton

Feeling as his films often do, both traditional and surprisingly ahead of its time, it’s one of the best films ever made on the subject of infidelity and marriage. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Ozu's depiction of marital difficulties is hardly depressing. Instead he employs his signature warmth, sensitivity, and humor to create a touching, thoughtful film. Read full review

Richard Brody

Ozu’s despairing view of postwar Japan looks as harshly at blind modernization as it does at decadent tradition. Read full review

Nora Sayre

This modest classic also conveys the claustrophobia of office life better than any other film I've seen. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Ozu's pessimism is deeply reactionary, and the idiosyncrasy of his methods is more interesting for its exoticism than anything else; but anyone who finds the socio-psychological problems of post-war Japan engaging will find the movie both fascinating and rather moving, simply as evidence. Read full review

Don Druker

This 1956 feature, a casual yet meticulously detailed reconstruction of Japan’s routinized white-collar milieu, was Yasujiro Ozu’s first film after the exquisite Tokyo Story, as well as one of his longest works. Read full review

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