Early Summer (1951)
Overview
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.
Cast
Setsuko Hara
Noriko Mamiya
Chishū Ryū
Koichi Mamiya
Chikage Awashima
Aya Tamura
Kuniko Miyake
Fumiko Mamiya
Ichirō Sugai
Shukichi Mamiya
Chieko Higashiyama
Shige Mamiya
Haruko Sugimura
Tami Yabe
Kuniko Igawa
Takako
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Kenkichi Yabe
Shūji Sano
Sotaro Satake
Toyo Takahashi
Nobu Tamura
Seiji Miyaguchi
Nishiwaki
Kokuten Kōdō
Old Uncle
Tomoka Hasebe
Hospital Assistant
Zen Murase
Minoru MamiyaRecommendations
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Late Spring
An Autumn Afternoon
Happy Hour
Nobody Knows
Tokyo Sonata
The Sea of Trees
Her Love Boils Bathwater
After the Storm
Before We Vanish
In This Corner of the World
MOTHER
Tokyo Story
The Pumpkin Eater
A Man
From Up on Poppy Hill
Rhapsody in August
The Insect Woman
Café Lumière
Evil Does Not Exist