One of the most powerful of Yasujiro Ozu’s family portraits, LATE SPRING tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter this poignant tale of love and loss in postwar Japan.
In the second of Ozu’s Noriko trilogy, the Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own. A seemingly simple story, EARLY SUMMER is a nuanced examination of life’s changes across three generations. Screening in 35mm
Ozu’s profoundly stirring story of an aging couple who journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo surveys the rich and complex world of family life with the director’s customary delicacy and incisive perspective on social mores.