Oct 03, 1951
125 min
Full-HD

Early Summer (1951)

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.

Category

Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Shochiku Shochiku Ofuna Film Studio

Setsuko Hara

Noriko Mamiya

Chishū Ryū

Koichi Mamiya

Chikage Awashima

Aya Tamura

Kuniko Miyake

Fumiko Mamiya

Ichirō Sugai

Shukichi Mamiya

Chieko Higashiyama

Shige Mamiya

Haruko Sugimura

Tami Yabe

Kuniko Igawa

Takako

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