An Autumn Afternoon
An Autumn Afternoon , Sanma no aji? , The Taste of Mackerel Pike is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujir Ozu. It stars Ozu regular Chish Ry as the patriarch of the Hirayama family who eventually realises that he has a duty to arrange a marriage for his daughter Michiko Shima Iwashita. It was Ozus last film he died the following year.
Shhei Hirayama Chish Ry is an ageing widower with a 32yearold married son, Kichi Keiji Sada, and two unmarried children 24yearold daughter Michiko Shima Iwashita and a 21yearold son Kazuo Shinichir Mikami. The ages of the children, and what they respectively remember about their mother, suggest that she died just before the end of the war, perhaps in the bombing of Tokyo in 194445. Since his marriage, Kichi has moved out to live with his wife in a small flat, leaving Hirayama and Kazuo to be looked after by Michiko.Hirayama and five of his classmates from middleschool, Kawai Nobuo Nakamura, Horie Ryji Kita, Sugai Tszai Sugawara, Watanabe Masao Oda and Nakanishi, hold regular reunions at a restaurant called Wakamatsu Young Pine, which is owned by Sugai. They reminisce about old times and banter with each other. For example, Horie is teased about having a new young wife and asked whether he is taking pills to maintain his virility. ........
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