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Availability: Special Order - Usually ships within 3-6 business days. Once you order it, we will order it from our supplier and ship it out to you. We do not bill you for Special Order items until they ship. You cannot cancel Special Order items after purchase. Director: Yasujiro Ozu Producer: Shitsuo Yamauchi Released: 1962 [Japan] Genre: Drama Keywords:  Family / Siblings || Japan / Japanese || Marriage / Wedding || Parents / Parenting || Widow

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Plot:	Hirayama, a middle-aged widower, is reluctant to marry off his daughter Michiko, but realizes how miserable she would be staying single and looking after him. Michiko finally gets married and Hirayama returns home to a gaping emptiness after the wedding.
Overview:	Hirayama Shuhei, a middle-aged widower, is reluctant to marry off his lovable daughter, Michiko, though she is already twenty-four and has secretly given her heart to a young man in the neighborhood. Hirayama realizes how miserable his daughter would become if she has to stay single and look after him when he meets his secondary school teacher who also has a daughter facing the same dilemma. Michiko finally gets married and Hirayama returns home to a gaping emptiness after the wedding. Completed after his mother's death, Ozu's final film is a unique artistic testament and perhaps an attempt to distill the wisdom of sixty years and fifty-three films into a single work. Both humorous and heart-breaking, this serenely beautiful swan song sees his rigorous but poetic style honed to absolute perfection.
Cast:	Chisu Ryu  ||  Shima Iwashita  ||  Shinichiro Mikami  ||  Keiji Sada  ||  Mariko Okada (Click any actor to search for more of their movies!)
Running Time:	113 mins. (approx.)
Languages:	Japanese (Dolby Digital 1.0 - Mono)
Subtitles:	ENGLISH
Distributor:	Criterion Collection  [A USA-Based Distributor]
Rating:	UN - "Unrated. This film has not been rated by the review board."
Features:	Full Screen (OAR) Mono Audio Commentary by Film Scholar David Bordwell Excerpts From 1978 French TV Documentary on Ozu Trailers Collector's Booklet More...