An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.
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- 4 wins & 1 nomination
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- TriviaYasujirô Ozu: [static camera] There is not a single camera movement in the entire film, as in many of Ozu's films.
- Quotes
[last lines]
[English subtitled version]
Shuhei Hirayama: I'm all alone.
Shuhei Hirayama: [singing] Floating castles guard the Land of the Rising Sun...
- Crazy creditsThe film title and credits are set against a backdrop of painted fronds.
Generally Yasujirô Ozu films have the credits placed before a backdrop of plain sackcloth.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Yasujirô Ozu, le cinéaste du bonheur (2023)
- SoundtracksGunkan kôshinkyoku
(Warship March)
Written by Tôkichi Setoguchi
Featured review
The beauty of things
I can whole-heartedly relate to previous reviewers' sentiments about this movie. From my own perspective it is also an awesome celebration of beauty. The theme is the same Ozu's favorite—separation of father and his grown-up daughter-- however it is presented in a different, less nerve-wrecking and more humorous way (as compared to Late Spring), but most of all -- within the colorful kaleidoscope of everyday things looking as works of art in themselves. Ozu rejoices in showing the beauty of such mundane objects as mugs, bowls, kimonos, tables, lamp shades, houses, fences, even industrial chimneys and such. Colors and shapes are arranged into perfect compositions and sometimes it seems that still objects actually govern the mood and the flow of people around them. The parallel with Tarkovskij's movies, like Solaris and Stalker, where the harmony of individual objects creates its own layer of movie symbolism, seems natural, only Russian movies were shot more than a decade later. I watched An Autumn Afternoon several times with the same joyful interest and gratitude for the gift of showing us the beauty of everyday life.
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- Dec 5, 2011
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- Ein Herbstnachmittag
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- Tokyo, Japan(setting of the action)
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- Gross worldwide
- $27,189
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