The End of Summer ( Kohayagawa-ke no aki ) ( Autumn for the Kohayagawa Family )

The End of Summer (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kohayagawa-ke no aki
Alternate Title: Autumn for the Kohayagawa Family
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
103 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1961 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Yasujiro Ozu

Written By:
Kôgo Noda
Yasujiro Ozu

Actors:
Ganjiro Nakamura ..... Kohayagawa Banpei
Setsuko Hara ..... Akiko
Yôko Tsukasa ..... Noriko, second daughter
Michiyo Aratama ..... Fumiko, eldest daughter
Keiju Kobayashi ..... Hisao, Fumiko's husband
Masahiko Shimazu ..... Masao, thier son
Hisaya Morishige ..... Isomura Eiichirou
Chieko Naniwa ..... Sasaki Tsune
Reiko Dan ..... Yuriko, her daughter
Haruko Sugimura ..... Katou Shige
Daisuke Katô ..... Kitagawa Yanosuke
Haruko Togo ..... Kitagawa Teruko
Yumi Shirakawa ..... Nakanishi Takako
Akira Takarada ..... Teramoto Tadashi
Kakyu Sazan ..... Yamaguchi, Chief clerk

Synopsis:

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 16 October, 2008.

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