Late Spring (1949) is a Japanese drama film directed by the renowned filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu. A widower and his daughter share a heartwarming yet delicate bond in “Late Spring” (1949). Professor Tanaka ...

Late Spring—the best film by Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu and one of the greatest films ever made—is finally available on DVD. It’s the story of a widowed father and his daughter, played by two of Ozu ...

TUESDAY 5/21. Riverdale 10 VIP Cinema. 7 p.m. $12-$14. In the Japanese drama “Late Spring” (1949), the 27-year-old Noriko (Setsuko Hara) happily shares a home with her father, Shukichi Somiya (Chishū ...

Adam Grinwald is a Feature Writer at Collider with a lifelong passion for cinema, literature, music, and culture. From the early days of memorizing practically every single line of dialogue off a ...

Veteran Japanese writer/director Yasujiro Ozu's second postwar production was 1949's Late Spring or Banshun. Chisu Ryu plays another of Ozu's realistic middle-class types, this time a widower with a ...

Ozu Yasujiro, the leading Japanese film director behind classics including “Tokyo Story” and “Late Spring,” has had his double birth and death anniversaries – Ozu died in 1963 on the day of his 60th ...

Benedict is a college graduate with a degree in Film and Screen Media and a future unemployed Letterboxd user. He got into movies through a childhood love of blockbusters and comic book movies, and ...

Life often feels like a monotonous cycle. Seligman well describes life as a series of repetitions. We eat and sleep and talk every day, and settle into the routine of it. It might feel like we are ...