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Like any of Yasujiro Ozu's best-known films, Early Summer is a marvel of cinematic simplicity, revealing layers of depth through multiple viewings. It may seem at first that Ozu's family tale i...( read more 
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MCT:February 25, 2008
Ozu is a master and telling simple stories about family, one of my favourite subject matters. A great story of tradition and modern life that truly reflects Japan with it's traditional cultures vs being on the cutting edge.
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MCT:August 12, 2007Another great film by the master of family drama. The dissolution of the family is once again a major theme. Like in Late Spring, the great Setsuko Hara plays a single woman in her late twenties who is pressured by her family into marriage. Unlike Late Spring, Hara's character is a modern, more rebellious type of woman, or so it initially seems. Is she driven to her actions by her selfish and independent lifestyle, or are her actions driven by something else? The outcome however is the same. The motif of trains and tracks symbolizes the increasing distance between the different generations, both physical and emotional. Ozu's films are never heavily driven by plot, but by a sense of the realism of casual everyday life in order to capture those small pleasures and disappointment that life comprises of. Despite their surface simplicity, they are rich and sincere. This film can be considered the second part of the Noriko trilogy, bookended by Late Spring and Tokyo Story. It's the most lighthearted and comic one but no less poignant.
No. of camera movements: 7 (gasp! Too many for an Ozu film!)
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