Rent An Autumn Afternoon / A Hen in the Wind (1962)
4.0 of 5 from 113 ratings
1h 53min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- Yasujiro Ozu's elegiac final film, 'An Autumn Afternoon', charts the inevitable eclipse of older generations by irreverent youth. Revisiting the story of his earlier masterpiece Late Spring (1949), Ozu once again casts Chishu Ryu in the role of Hirayama, the concerned father to unmarried Michiko. Harangued on all sides to marry off Michiko, Hirayama reluctantly prepares to bid his old life farewell. A cast of tragi-comic characters weaves seamlessly through this gently satirical portrayal of life's inevitable, endless cycle.
- Actors:
- Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, Teruo Yoshida, Noriko Maki, Shin'ichirô Mikami, Nobuo Nakamura, Eijirô Tôno, Kuniko Miyake, Kyôko Kishida, Michiyo Tamaki, Ryûji Kita, Toyo Takahashi, Shinobu Asaji, Masao Oda, Fujio Suga, Zenichi Inagawa, Matsuko Shiga, Hisayo Komachi
- Directors:
- Yasujirô Ozu
- Producers:
- Shizuo Yamanouchi, Mitsuzô Kubo
- Writers:
- Kôgo Noda, Yasujirô Ozu
- Aka:
- Sanma no aji / Kaze no naka no mendori
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- All the Twos: 1902-62, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Yasujiro Ozu, Top 10 Autumn Films, Top 10 Barnyard Bird Films, Top 10 Best Last Films: World Cinema, Top Films
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 23/05/2011
- Run Time:
- 113 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (1) of An Autumn Afternoon / A Hen in the Wind
Just wonderful - An Autumn Afternoon / A Hen in the Wind review by sb
FILM & REVIEW Yasujro Ozu’s final film before dying on his 60th birthday and it’s a wonderful meditation on family, ageing and loneliness. Ryo plays Shehai an elderly widower whole eldest son is married leaving him with his teenage son and unmarried daughter Michiko (IWashita) She as is as much a housekeeper to him as daughter and all his friends who have married off their own daughters keep asking him when he will sort it out. She however seems perfectly happy with things as they stand showing no desire to be married off. Things come to a head when they invite their old schoolteacher to a reunion and he turns out to be a drunken bitter old man who has kept his own daughter to look after him well past her marrying age and this gets Shehai to wonder if the same fate awaits him and Michiko… Various plans and plots are laid to get things moving along and it culminates in a really bittersweet ending. The performances are superb with Ryo bringing his customary quiet dignity to full fruition and Ozu used his customary static camera to create a real still point in a turning world. In the hands of a lesser director this could easily become dull or even dour but by keeping a lightness of touch he imbibes the film with a deeper more moving meaning and proves for the final time why he was one of the worlds greatest film makers - 5/5
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