Late Spring (Banshun) first published by Little White Lies Yasujiro Ozu‘s Late Spring opens just outside the Kita-Kamakura Station, a place of (locomotive) stasis and motion marked by a signpost written in both the local Japanese and the English of the recent occupiers, as a breeze stirs through the surrounding trees. This wind of change will bring with…
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Early Summer (Bakushu) (1951)
Early Summer first published by Little White Lies As surely as one season leads to the next, Yasujiro Ozu’s Early Summer begins more or less where his earlier Late Spring ended, with an image of waves washing against the beach near Kamakura – and that is not the only continuity between the two films. For both star Setsuko Hara as…