Details

Release year: 1961

Storyline

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

Top credits

Directors

Yasujirō Ozu

Writers

Cast

Ganjirô Nakamura — Kohayagawa Manbei
Setsuko Hara — Akiko
Yôko Tsukasa — Noriko, second daughter
Michiyo Aratama — Fumiko, eldest daughter

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Did you know

• Ozu shot the film without his usual staff from Shochiku. Instead Toho provided Ozu with their top talent with such as Kurosawa's cinematographer Asakazu Nakai and Naruse's chief lighting technician Chôshirô Ishii. This results in the film having a distinct feel and unique look from the rest of Ozu's works.

• The last of six collaborations between Yasujiro Ozu and Setsuko Hara.

• This is Ozu's first and only film made at Toho studios. Setsuko Hara and Yôko Tsukasa were under contract at Toho and in order for Ozu to cast them in his prior film Late Autumn (1960), he agreed to make a film for Toho in exchange.