The End of Summer


The End of Summer , Kohayagawake no aki, lit. Autumn for the Kohayagawa family? is a 1961 film directed by Yasujir Ozu. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was his penultimate only An Autumn Afternoon 1962 followed it.

Manbei Kohayagawa Ganjir Nakamura is the head of a small sake brewery company at Kyoto, with two daughters and a widowed daughterinlaw. His daughterinlaw and youngest daughter, Akiko Setsuko Hara and Noriko Yoko Tsukasa, stay together in Osaka. Akiko helps out at an art gallery and has a son Minoru. Noriko, unmarried, works as a salaried office worker. Manbeis other daughter, Fumiko Michiyo Aratama, lives with him. Her husband, Hisao, helps at the brewery and they have a young son Masao.Manbei asks his brotherinlaw Kitagawa Daisuke Kat to find Akiko a husband, and Kitagawa lets Akiko meet a friend Isomura Eiichirou Hisaya Morishige, a widower, at a pub. Isomura is enthusiastic about the match but Akiko is hesitant. Manbei also asks Kitagawa to arrange a matchmaking session for his youngest daughter, Noriko. ........

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