The End of Summer (1961)
Kohayagawa-ke no aki (original title)Reference View | Change View
- 1h 43min
- Drama
- Feb 1962 (USA)
- Movie
- 1 win & 1 nomination.
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Cast
Ganjirô Nakamura | ... |
Kohayagawa Manbei
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Setsuko Hara | ... |
Akiko
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Yôko Tsukasa | ... |
Noriko, second daughter
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Michiyo Aratama | ... |
Fumiko, eldest daughter
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Keiju Kobayashi | ... |
Hisao, Fumiko's husband
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Masahiko Shimazu | ... |
Masao, third son
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Hisaya Morishige | ... |
Isomura Eiichirou
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Chieko Naniwa | ... |
Sasaki Tsune
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Reiko Dan | ... |
Yuriko, her daughter
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Haruko Sugimura | ... |
Katou Shige
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Daisuke Katô | ... |
Kitagawa Yanosuke
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Haruko Tôgô | ... |
Kitagawa Teruko
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Yumi Shirakawa | ... |
Nakanishi Takako
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Akira Takarada | ... |
Teramoto Tadashi
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Kyû Sazanka | ... |
Yamaguchi, Chief clerk
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Yû Fujiki | ... |
Maruyama Rokutarou
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Chishû Ryû | ... |
Farmer
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Tatsuo Endô | ... |
Banpei's brother
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Yûko Mochizuki | ... |
Farmer's wife
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Asao Uchida | ... |
Isha (doctor)
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Directed by
Yasujirô Ozu |
Written by
Kôgo Noda | ... | (screenplay) & |
Yasujirô Ozu | ... | (screenplay) |
Produced by
Sanezumi Fujimoto | ... | producer |
Masakatsu Kaneko | ... | producer |
Tadahiro Teramoto | ... | producer |
Music by
Toshirô Mayuzumi |
Cinematography by
Asakazu Nakai |
Editing by
Kôichi Iwashita |
Production Design by
Tomoo Shimogawara |
Art Direction by
Tomoo Shimogawara |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Shigekichi Takemae | ... | assistant director |
Sound Department
Kôichi Nakagawa | ... | sound recordist |
Hisashi Shimonaga | ... | sound mixer |
Camera and Electrical Department
Chôshirô Ishii | ... | lighting technician |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Toho (1961) (Japan) (theatrical)
- Artificial Eye (2003) (United Kingdom) (theatrical) (re-release)
- British Film Institute (BFI) (1962) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Carlotta Films (2020) (France) (theatrical) (re-release) (restored version)
- New Yorker Films (1970) (United States) (theatrical) (as "The End of Summer")
- Pari Films (1982) (France) (theatrical)
- Rosebud (2004) (Greece) (theatrical)
- Toho (1962) (United States) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- The Criterion Channel (2023) (United States) (tv) (streaming)
- The Criterion Collection (2007) (United States) (DVD) (as Eclipse from the Criterion Collection) (English subtitles)
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Plot Summary |
Approaching his senior years, widowed Manbei Kohayagawa is the owner of a small family run sake brewery in Kyoto. Hisao, his daughter Fumiko's husband, works for the company. Another daughter, Osaka based Akiko, who works at an art gallery, is widowed, her deceased husband who decided not to work in the family business, but maintain his own career as a college professor. Kohayagawa's third and last daughter, Noriko, a clerk in an office, has never been married, but is now of marrying age. Because the business is not doing well as it cannot compete with the larger sake companies, Kohayagawa wants to ensure that all his daughters are taken care of financially, which means finding husbands for both Akiko and Noriko, that task which is aided by Kohayagawa's younger brother-in-law, Yanosuke Kitagawa. Akiko and Noriko know about the arrangements with the potential husbands - although Akiko's first "date" is more of a surprise to her - and generally go along with the dates as are requested of them, but neither is sure if it is what she is looking for for herself. Akiko is quite content with her current lot in life, taking care of her growing son, Minoru. And Noriko has only confided in Akiko that she has a close friendship with a man named Tadashi Teramoto, a teacher who has just moved to Sapporo indefinitely for work. Kohayagawa's want for his daughters may also be because he has rediscovered companionship in his own life, with a former mistress, Sasaki Tsune, who he accidentally ran into after not seeing her for nineteen years. Sasaki has told him that her twenty-one year old daughter, spoiled Yuriko Tsune, is his biological daughter, something he believes, although Sasaki doesn't really know or care, as doesn't Yuriko, especially if they can get out of him what they want. Kohayagawa's family does not know of Sasaki currently in his life, but they do know of his marital indiscretion previously with her and do suspect that his "business meetings" which are ruses to meet with her are not what he says they are. Something that happens to Kohayagawa leads to Akiko and Noriko coming to some decisions about their own lives. Written by Huggo |
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Did You Know?
Trivia | The last of six collaborations between Yasujiro Ozu and Setsuko Hara. See more » |
Movie Connections | Referenced in I Lived, But... (1983). See more » |
Soundtracks | In a Persian Market See more » |
Quotes |
Kitagawa Yanosuke:
We humans can't come to terms with death until it's too late. Even people like my brother, who did as he pleased. On his deathbed, even Toyotomi Hideyoshi said: "It's as if my glorious life was but a dream within a dream." See more » |