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The End of Summer [DVD] [1961]

Ganjirô Nakamura (Actor), Setsuko Hara (Actor), Yasujirô Ozu (Director) | Rated: Universal, suitable for all | Format: DVD
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Ganjirô Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Michiyo Aratama, Keiju Kobayashi
  • Directors: Yasujirô Ozu
  • Writers: Yasujirô Ozu, Kôgo Noda
  • Producers: Masakatsu Kaneko, Sanezumi Fujimoto, Tadahiro Teramoto
  • Format: PAL, Colour, Mono, Full Screen
  • Language: Japanese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Artificial Eye
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Jan 2004
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0001984JE
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 89,391 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Yasujiro Ozu's penultimate film is an examination of the difficulties faced by the Kohayagawa family as they struggle to adapt their traditional values to a rapidly changing post-war Japan. Elderly patriach, Manbei tries to marry off two of his daughters, struggles to keep the family's saki business going, and rekindles an old affair.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Humorous, touching, subtle and very Japanese. 6 Feb 2004
By 70Mohican
Format:DVD
This is a very different film from Tokyo Story. More playful, slightly less melodramatic yet just as peotic as the accepted masterpiece by Ozu. Set in Kyoto, Ganjiro Nakamura, a well known kabuki actor seen also in Floating Weeds, plays Manbei, the father of a family. Just as in many of Ozu's films, his main concern is the arrangement of his daughter's marriage. However, she is torn between appeasing her father and pursuing another man. Meanwhile, Setsuko Hara, his widowed daughter-in-law, is also encouraged to remarry a respectable gentleman but she finds that she has nothing in common with him. Through this simple premise, Ozu explores the conflict between the pressure of conformity and desire for modernisation in Japanese society. The humour of the film comes from Manbei's secret excursions to his lover's house. Nakamura's acting in these little episodes are a gem.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Among Ozu's best 10 Aug 2008
By Andres C. Salama
Format:DVD
Ozu's penultimate film is also one of his best. As in many of his films, the theme here deals with the dynamics of a traditional Japanese family. The aging patriarch of a family has to deal with marrying his two grown daughters (one is divorced with child, the great Setsuko Hara), the financial problems facing his small sake producing business, the reunion with his long lost lover and their capricious daughter and, last but not least, his impending death. The death theme hangs throughout the movie; Ozu was probably thinking of his own death when he filmed this (he would live only a couple of years more); the last shot has black crows standing over the patriarch's gravestone. Ozu's films in colour are even better than those in black and white; his famous sense of composition shines even better. Besides, I love colour films from the late 1950s and early 1960s period, perhaps because they show us what society look like before the great disruption of the late 1960s (this is not personal nostalgia, since I wasn't even born then). Overall, one of Ozu's best films.
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4.0 out of 5 stars To Marry or not to Marry 2 Aug 2007
By J. A. Eyon
Format:DVD
This like the flip-side of LATE SPRING. It's about marriage possibilities again but without the family unit holding anyone back.

Two daughters (one, a widow) have marriage prospects -- and doubts. Funnily, they don't seem to be the ones who are bothered when their aging widower father takes up with an ex-girl friend. It's their older, married sister who gets upset.

Typical with Ozu, this is told in a meandering style. This time with rich, saturated color. Most of his acting troup is here. Even more than with other Ozu films I've seen, I found it difficult to sort out the cast of characters -- who's related to who.

A couple humorous moments for Americans occur with the American boyfriends of one the girls. They have a line each -- in supposed American English!

If you're new to Ozu, I recommend that you first see the Criterion Collection DVD of FLOATING WEEDS with Roger Ebert's insightful film commentary on Ozu film-making.
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