The End of Summer (1961)
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Family Drama |
Run Time - 103 min. |
Countries - Japan |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka
The highly accomplished Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu demonstrates his stylistic touch for deceptive simplicity, rapier wit, and nuances of melancholy in this well-wrought drama about a man in the declining years of his life. Manbei Kohayagawa (Ganjiro Nakamura) has a rich life on three different fronts. He is the head of a brewery that is having problems at the moment, the head of a family in which one widowed daughter needs his help in finding a new mate and the other needs him to help her make the right choice in a future spouse. Manbei has a strong devil-may-care streak and his solution to his burdens at the moment is to look up his old mistress and resume a relationship with her. His decision has unexpected consequences for himself and his family.
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brewery, daughter, death, extramarital-affair, family, father, heart-attack, honor [recognition], Japan, mistress, paternity, running, visit