Late Spring / The Only Son ( Banshun (Kathysterimeni anoixi) / Hitori musuko )

Late Spring / The Only Son (Blu-Ray) (*)

$33.99

Original Title: Banshun (Kathysterimeni anoixi) / Hitori musuko
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Linear PCM )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1936 - 1949 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Yasujiro Ozu

Written By:
Kazuo Hirotsu
Kôgo Noda
Yasujiro Ozu
Tadao Ikeda

Actors:
Chishu Ryu ..... Shukichi Somiya
Setsuko Hara ..... Noriko Somiya
Yumeji Tsukioka ..... Aya Kitagawa
Haruko Sugimura ..... Masa Taguchi
Hohi Aoki ..... Katsuyoshi
Jun Usami ..... Shuichi Hattori
Kuniko Miyake ..... Akiko Miwa
Masao Mishima ..... Jo Onodera
Yoshiko Tsubouchi ..... Kiku
Yôko Katsuragi ..... Misako
Toyo Takahashi ..... Shige
Jun Tanizaki ..... Seizo Hayashi
Ichirô Shimizu ..... Takigawa's master
Youko Benisawa ..... Teahouse Proprietress
Manzaburo Umewaka ..... Shite
Chôko Iida ..... Tsune Nonomiya (O-Tsune)
Shin'ichi Himori ..... Ryosuke Nonomiya
Masao Hayama ..... Ryosuke Nonomiya, as child
Yoshiko Tsubouchi ..... Sugiko
Mitsuko Yoshikawa ..... O-Taka
Chishu Ryu ..... Professor Ookubo
Tomoko Naniwa ..... Ookubo's wife
Bakudankozo ..... Okubo's son
Kiyoshi Seino ..... Matsumura, old man
Eiko Takamatsu ..... Jokou
Seiichi Kato ..... Kinjo no ko
Kazuo Kojima ..... Kimiko
Tomio Aoki ..... Tomibo (as Tokkan Kozou)

Synopsis:

Late Spring (1949)
Noriko is 27 years old and is still living with her father Somiya, a widower. Noriko just recovered from an illness she developed in the war, and now the important question pops up: when will Noriko start thinking about marriage? Everybody who is important in her life tries to talk her into it: her father, her aunt, a girlfriend. But Noriko doesn't want to get married, she seems extremely happy with her life. She wants to stay with her father to take care of him. After all, she knows best of his manners and peculiarities. But Noriko's aunt doesn't want to give up. She arranges a partner for her and thinks of a plan that will convince Noriko her father can be left alone.

The Only Son (1936)
In 1923, in the province of Shinshu, the widow and simple worker of a silk factory Tsune Nonomiya (O-Tsune) decides to send her only son to Tokyo for having a better education. Thirteen years later, she visits her son Ryosuke Nonomiya (Shinichi Himori), and finds that he is a poor and frustrated night-school teacher with a wife, Sugiko (Yoshiko Tsubouchi), and a baby boy.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 25 November, 2010.

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