Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.
Chishu Ryu | Shukichi Somiya | |
Setsuko Hara | Noriko Somiya | |
Yumeji Tsukioka | Aya Kitagawa | |
Haruko Sugimura | Masa Taguchi | |
Hohi Aoki | Katsuyoshi | |
Jun Usami | Shôichi Hattori | |
Kuniko Miyake | Akiko Miwa | |
Masao Mishima | Jo Onodera | |
Yoshiko Tsubouchi | Kiku | |
Yoko Katsuragi | Misako | |
Toyo Takahashi | Shige | |
Jun Tanizaki | Seizô Hayashi | |
Ichiro Shimizu | Takigawa's master | |
Yôko Benisawa | Teahouse Proprietress | |
Manzaburo Umewaka | Shite | |
Nobu Nojima | Waki | |
Ichiro Kitamura | Little drum | |
Haruo Yasufuku | Big drum | |
Soichi Konparu | ||
Tadaichi Aoki | Prompter | |
Nagahiro Yoshida | ||
Seiju Kanze | Nô chorus | |
Shintaro Umewaka | Nô chorus | |
Shizuo Kanze | Nô chorus | |
Seiji Toda | Nô chorus |
Director | Yasujiro Ozu | |
Writer | Kazuo Hirotsu, Kôgo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu | |
Producer | Takeshi Yamamoto | |
Musician | Senji Ito | |
Photography | Yûharu Atsuta |
Quantity | 1 |
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Seen | |
Added Date | Feb 12, 2019 17:26:22 |
Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:34:55 |
Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
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Audio Tracks | SUB [English] |
Distributor | Criterion Collection |
Edition Release Date | Apr 17, 2012 |
2019 Birthday gift from the Carters
SPECIAL FEATURES
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary by Richard Peña, program director of New York’s Film Society of Lincoln Center
Tokyo-ga (1985), filmmaker Wim Wenders’s ninety-two-minute documentary about director Yasujiro Ozu
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Michael Atkinson and Japanese-film historian Donald Richie, as well as Ozu’s thoughts on screenwriter Kogo Noda
New cover by Neil Kellerhouse