Late spring (1949)

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The Late Spring (also known as Banshun) is a 1949 shochiku drama film,Directed by Yasujiro Ozu.

## Plot

Shukichi Somiya lived in Kamakura with his daughter Noriko while working as a university professor. Shukichi lost his wife early on, and his father and daughter couldn't be separated for a long time because Noriko, a daughter who was forced during the war, hurt her body. For that reason, he still gave his father a year of 27 years old, and he was taking care of his daughter. Shukichi's sister, Masa Taguchi, also went in and out of the Somiya family and was distracted by some of their inconvenient lives. Around this time, Noriko became well and went to and from her classmate and friend Aya Kitagawa. Aya got married for a while, but now she's back home after meeting her husband's bad treatment. In addition, Shoichi Hattori, who is Shukichi's assistant, will soon get married. Masa, who doesn't mind, tries to marry Noriko somehow, but Noriko doesn't shake her head vertically. Shukichi and Masa, who had once thought about connecting their assistant Hattori and Noriko, reconsidered when they heard that Hattori had already been engaged, and recommended a new candidate. On the other hand, Shukichi and his close friend Onodera have been professors at universities in Kyoto. When I happened to come to Tokyo, I was told that Noriko had a second wife and that she was filthy. Noriko then implicitly listened to her father's movements. My aunt Masa thought that a beautiful widow named Akiko Miwa, who I knew at the tea party, was my brother Shukichi in my heart, and I talked to Noriko while advancing her marriage, but Noriko was more than her own marriage. I was distracted by my father's remarriage. Noriko has changed somehow since then. Even if Aya Kitagawa asks me to get married, I feel more and more annoyed. One day Noriko asked her father about her intention to remarry. My father replied that he would remarry. Noriko wanted to live with her father as it was, but found out that her feelings were getting weaker and weaker. Noriko, who gave her aunt's very consent, went to Kyoto with her father on her last trip. In Kyoto, surrounded by the warm family of the Onodera family, Noriko canceled the word "dirty" that Noriko once said to her uncle. Noriko, who returned from Kyoto, had a wedding soon. Shukichi was asked to remarriage Kitagawa Aya after sending her daughter Noriko on her honeymoon, saying, "Don't say that. Noriko wouldn't get married if that was the case. " He was 56 years old and lay down forever, as if the now lonely Go of Kamakura was disappointed at home.

## Cast

* Somiya Shukichi - Shu Ryuchi
* Noriko- Setsuko Hara
* Aya Kitagawa- Yumeji Tsukioka
* Masa Taguchi- Haruko Sugimura (Bungakuza)
* Katsuyoshi-Hohi Aoki
* Shoichi Hattori- Jun Usami
* Akiko Miwa- Kuniko Miyake
* Yuzuru Onodera- Masao Mishima
* Kiku Onodera- Yoshiko Tsubouchi
* Misako Onodera- Yoko Katsuragi
* Takigawa's host- Ichiro Shimizu
* Seizo Hayashi-Jun Tanizaki
* Shige Hayashi-Toyo Takahashi
* Tea Ceremony Teacher- Yoko Benisawa

## Staff

* Director- Yasujiro Ozu
* Original-From "Father and Daughter" by Kazuo HirotsuLate spring (1949)
* Screenplay- Kogo Noda , Yasujiro Ozu
* Shooting- Yuharu Atsuta
* Production-Takeshi Yamamoto
* Art-Tatsuo Hamada
* Tone-Hosaburo Senoo
* Recording-Hidetaka Sasaki
* Lighting-Haruo Isono
* Edit --Yoshiyasu Hamamura
* Music-Senji Ito
* Equipment-Kintaro Yamamoto
* Decoration-Komaki Motokazu
* Costumes-Bunjiro Suzuki
* Development --Ryuji Hayashi
* Burning-Koichi Nakamura
* Facilitator-Dai Watanabe
* Assistant Director-Kozo Yamamoto, Shokichi Tsukamoto, Kozo Tashiro, Buichi Saito
* Shooting Assistant-Haruji Inoue, Takashi Kawamata, Motokasa Ogawa, Yoshiji Tatekawa, Takeo Matsuda
* Art Assistant-Masao Kumagai
* Tone Assistant-Yoshiomi Hori, Kojiro Suematsu, Hirofumi Sato, Ryo Ofuji
* Lighting Assistant-Shigeo Suzuki, Akira Aomatsu
* Equipment Assistant-Kakuzo Sasu
* Hairdressing-Toku Sakuma
* Decorative Assistant-Tetsuji Yamazaki, Makoto Aihara
* Tokoyama-Kintaro Yoshizawa, Hisae Kakizawa
* Craft --Mitsui Definition
* Onomatopoeia-Rokusaburo Saito
* Editorial Assistant-Mikiyo Hata
* Acting affairs-Masao Yagi
* Shooting office work-Takeshi Tajiri

### Data

* Production: Shochiku Ofuna Photo Studio
* Format: Black and white standard size (1.37: 1), monaural
* First box office: International Theater
* Simultaneous screening:

## Titles

* Last Spring (English Title)
* Late Spring (Original Japanese release title)
* Banshun (Worldwide release title)

## Production

The central event of *Late Spring* is the marriage of the heroine to a man she has met only once through a single arranged meeting. This immediately presented a problem for the censors of the American Occupation. According to film scholar Kyoko Hirano, these officials "considered feudalistic the Japanese custom of arranged meetings for prospective marriage partners, *miai*, because the custom seemed to them to downgrade the importance of the individual." Hirano notes that, had this policy against showing arranged marriages onscreen been rigidly enforced, *Late Spring* could never have been made. In the original synopsis (which the filmmakers were required to submit to the censorship before production could be approved), Noriko’s decision to marry was presented as a collective family decision, not an individual choice, and the censors apparently rejected this.

The synopsis explained that the trip to Kyoto by father and daughter, just prior to Noriko’s marriage, occurs so she can visit her dead mother’s grave. This motivation is absent from the finished film, possibly because the censors would have interpreted such a visit as “ancestor worship,” a practice they frowned upon.

Any reference in the script to the devastation caused by the Allied bombings was removed. In the script, Shukichi remarks to Onodera’s wife in Kyoto that her city is a very nice place, unlike Tokyo, with all its ruins. The censors deleted the reference to ruins (as an implied critique of the Allies) and, in the finished film, the word “hokorippoi” (“dusty”) was substituted as a description of Tokyo.

The censors at first automatically deleted a reference in the script to the Hollywood star Gary Cooper, but then reinstated it when they realized that the comparison was to Noriko’s (unseen) suitor Satake, who is described by the female characters as attractive, and was thus flattering to the American actor.

Sometimes, the censors’ demands seemed irrational. A line about Noriko’s health having been negatively affected by "her work after being conscripted by the [Japanese] Navy during the war" was changed to "the forced work during the war," as if even the very mention of the Japanese Navy was somehow suspect.

At the script phase of the censorship process, the censors demanded that the character of Aunt Masa, who at one point finds a lost change purse on the ground and keeps it as a kind of good-luck charm, should be shown handing over the purse to the police. Ozu responded by turning the situation, in the finished film, into a kind of running gag in which Shukichi repeatedly (and futilely) urges his sister to turn the purse in to the police. This change has been called "a mocking kind of partial compliance with the censorship."

## Overview

Produced by Takeshi Sakamoto for the first time, Kogo Noda of "Women's Victory" and Yasujiro Ozu of "A Hen in the Wind" co-dramatized from "Father and Daughter" based on Kazuo Hirotsu, and Yasujiro Ozu Be the director. The camera is shot by Yuharu Atsuta, just like "A Hen in the Wind". Starring Chishu Ryu in "Mori no Ishimatsu (1949)", Setsuko Hara in "Aoi Sanmyaku (1949)" and "Here's to the Young Lady!" Atsushi, Kuniko Miyake of "Midnight Confession", Yumeji Tsukioka of "Jusohonmachi of Love", Masao Mishima of "Kimimachi Tedomo", Miko Tsubouchi, Yoko Katsuragi and others will support each other.

## Remake

In 2003, it was remade with the title " The **Daughter's Marriage** " to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Yasujiro Ozu's birth, and was broadcast as the 7th WOWOW drama W. Director Kon Ichikawa a, kyōzō nagatsuka and Kyoka Suzuki starred. Major changes have been made, such as replacing the times with the present.

In 2006, after re-editing, it was broadcast on terrestrial broadcasting in the DRAMA COMPLEX frame of Nippon Television .

### Cast

* Noriko Amemiya- Kyoka Suzuki
* Shukichi Amemiya- Kyozo Nagatsuka
* Shoji Sugiyama- Toru Nakamura
* Maaya Sakamoto- Tamaki Ogawa
* Masa Takanashi- Shiho Fujimura

### Staff

* Original-From Kazuo Hirotsu , Yasujiro Ozu / Kogo Noda "Late Spring"
* Director- Kon Ichikawa
* Screenplay-Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda
* Junmoto- Kurisutei
* Shooting-Yukio Isohata
* Art-Kayo Sakurai
* Lighting-Kaoru Saito
* Recording --Kazuharu Urata
* Tone-Tetsuya Ohashi
* Edit --Chizuko Osada
* Assistant Director-Kunio Korezawa
* Producer-Isao Suzuki, Akira Matsueda
* VE --Sato Manabu
* Music- Kensaku Tanikawa
* Decoration-Utena Masataka
* Costume-Ikuko Saito
* General Producer- Yasunori Aoki ( WOWOW )
* Producers- Shinzo Matsuhashi (WOWOW), Kazuo Tsuruma ( CAL )

### DVD

* Daughter's Marriage (July 24, 2004, Shochiku Home Video, DA-0370)