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Writers:
Kôgo Noda (screenplay) &
Yasujiro Ozu (screenplay)
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Release Date:
February 1962 (USA) more
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Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
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Cast

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Ganjiro Nakamura ... Kohayagawa Banpei
Setsuko Hara ... Akiko
Yôko Tsukasa ... Noriko, second daughter
Michiyo Aratama ... Fumiko, eldest daughter
Keiju Kobayashi ... Hisao, Fumiko's husband
Masahiko Shimazu ... Masao, thier son
Hisaya Morishige ... Isomura Eiichirou
Chieko Naniwa ... Sasaki Tsune
Reiko Dan ... Yuriko, her daughter
Haruko Sugimura ... Katou Shige
Daisuke Katô ... Kitagawa Yanosuke
Haruko Togo ... Kitagawa Teruko
Yumi Shirakawa ... Nakanishi Takako
Akira Takarada ... Teramoto Tadashi
Kyû Sazanka ... Yamaguchi, Chief clerk
Yû Fujiki ... Maruyama Rokutarou
Chishû Ryû ... Farmer
Tatsuo Endo ... Banpei's brother
Yûko Mochizuki ... Farmer's wife
Asao Uchida ... Isha (doctor)
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Directed by
Yasujiro Ozu 
 
Writing credits
Kôgo Noda (screenplay) &
Yasujiro Ozu (screenplay)

Produced by
Sanezumi Fujimoto .... producer
Masakatsu Kaneko .... producer
Tadahiro Teramoto .... producer
 
Original Music by
Toshirô Mayuzumi 
 
Cinematography by
Asakazu Nakai 
 
Film Editing by
Koichi Iwashita 
 
Production Design by
Tomoo Shimogawara 
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Shigekichi Takemae .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Koichi Nakagawa .... sound
Hisashi Shimonaga .... sound mixer
 

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Also Known As:
Autumn for the Kohayagawa Family (literal English title)
Early Autumn
The End of Summer (International: English title)
The Last of Summer
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Japan:103 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Finland:S | UK:A (original rating) | UK:U (re-rating)
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7 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
ozu's colour masterpiece, 11 April 2006
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Author: postcefalu from Spain

After his second experience with colour, a light, happy "Ohayo", secretly epic and impressed, Ozu shot one of the milestones of his career: "Kohayagawa-ke no aki" is in my recollection, with "Banshun" and "Munakata shimai", his best work. Most of the themes exposed in previous films (father's intervention in his daughters' lifes, love (in the hands of others), solitude) are here integrated in a comedy-structured film that becomes a drama. It's perhaps his unique melodrama and it is shown with the desperate of the last breath for some characters, as usual in Ozu, doubtful and seeking a place for their quiet happiness.

There is no Ozu film nearest Sirk's or Minneli's universe like this one.

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