The End of Summer
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| Toho Company | Release Date: February 1, 1962 |
Starring:
Chieko Naniwa, Ganjirô Nakamura, Haruko Sugimura, Hisaya Morishige, Keiju Kobayashi, Masahiko Shimazu, Michiyo Aratama, Reiko Dan, Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa
Summary:
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
The diversity of the human elements - the wonderful accumulation of interlinked characters and situations in Nakamura's family, daughters, ex-mistresses, business associates, sisters, brothers - builds impassively to a harrowing, unusually bleak climax in which death claims its due and the consolation offered is disturbingly minimal, tenderly as we feel for those bereaved. [20 Mar 2004]
Another gem (given his consistency in style and subject, how could it not be? ); the atypically emphatic music alone disappoints. [06 Aug 2003, p.74]
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