| Plot: | A young man is bored with the dreary predictability of his life and has an affair with the office flirt, which understandably causes him some trouble with his wife...
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| Overview: | The life of the salaried office-worker in modern Japan is a theme often treated by Japanese films, but never with the devastating thoroughness of Early Spring. A young man is bored with the dreary predictability of his job and his marriage and succumbs to an affair with the office flirt. He and his wife quarrel. He is transferred out f Tokyo to Osaka. His wife comes back to him and they agree to start over. The story, as such, is so slight that its choice seems purposeful, Ozu choosing it so that he could reconstruct a full study of the characters undistracted by irrelevant ploy complications. It is about nothing at all, yet told with such subtlety and compassion that the experience becomes a very moving one.
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| Cast: |
Chikage Awashima || Ryo Ikebe || Teiji Takahashi || Keiko Kishi || Takako Fujino || Kuniko Miyake || Chishu Ryu || Haruko Sugimura || Masami Taura || Kumeko Urabe || So Yamamura
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| Running Time: | 145 mins. (approx.)
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| Languages: | Japanese (Dolby Digital 1.0 - Mono)
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| Subtitles: | ENGLISH
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| Distributor: |
Criterion Collection [A USA-Based Distributor]
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| Rating: | | UN - "Unrated. This film has not been rated by the review board." |
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