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Late Spring

1949Movie1 h 48 min

Drama
89
ExcellentGoodWatch score
IMDb8.2Letterboxd4.3/5Metacritic937.7Rotten Tomatoes100%92%
89
ExcellentGoodWatch score
IMDb8.2Letterboxd4.3/5Metacritic937.7Rotten Tomatoes100%92%

Summary

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is…

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  • Date night
  • Friends night
  • Background watch

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  • You want fast pacing

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  • Makes you care deeply.
  • Feels like real life.
  • Hits close to home.
  • Breaks your heart.
  • Pulls you in.

Not for laughs, scares or adrenaline.

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At a glance

Tropes

Getting Crap Past the Radarin 288 titlesYasujiro Ozu was generally thought to be a conservative who valued Japanese tradition and old-style values, which is why his films are so typically "Japanese", as opposed to Akira Kurosawa who made m…Japanese PolitenessRare · in 42 titlesNoriko still manages to be smiling and cheerful as she tells Prof. Onodera that she finds it "distasteful" and "filthy" that he got remarried after his wife died.All 22 tropes

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