The End of Summer (1961)
小早川家の秋
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
- Date of release
- 1961-10-29
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (115)
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Yasujirō Ozu
Casting
- Ganjirō Nakamura II — Kohayagawa Manbei
- Setsuko Hara — Akiko
- Yōko Tsukasa — Noriko
- Michiyo Aratama — Fumiko
- Keiju Kobayashi — Hisao
- Masahiko Shimazu — Masao
- Hisaya Morishige — Isomura Eiichirou
- Chieko Naniwa — Sasaki Tsune
- Reiko Dan — Yuriko
- Haruko Sugimura — Katou Shige
- Daisuke Katō — Kitagawa Yanosuke
- Haruko Tōgō — Kitagawa Teruko
Interesting facts
The End of Summer is a 1961 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu for Toho Films. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was his penultimate; only An Autumn Afternoon (1962) followed it, which he made for Shochiku Films.
Production
In order to secure its contract stars Setsuko Hara and Yoko Tsukasa from Toho for his previous film, Late Autumn, Ozu agreed to direct The End of Summer for the studio, making it his only Toho film and one of his three films not produced for Shochiku (the others are Floating Weeds for Daiei and The Munekata Sisters for Shintoho).
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