Early Spring (1956)

Original title

早春

Directed by

Yasujirō Ozu

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 24m

Rated

TP

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 97 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married salaryman at a brick company feels trapped in his routine. To escape his dissatisfaction, he starts an affair with a woman from his office.

melancholicslow-burnmundanerestrainedbittersweetquietly intensecontemplative

What happens

Early Spring (早春, Sōshun) is a 1956 Japanese film by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chikage Awashima, Ryō Ikebe and Keiko Kishi. It is about a married salaryman who escapes the monotony of married life and his work at a fire brick manufacturing company by beginning an affair with a fellow office worker. The film also deals with the hardships of the salaryman lifestyle. "I wanted," Ozu said, "to portray what you might call the pathos of the white-collar life." With a runtime of 144 minutes, Early Spring is Ozu's longest surviving film, and his penultimate shot in black and white. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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