This weekend I watched the film Late Spring, directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Late Spring is a black and while Japanese film from 1949. It tells the story of a father a daughter in post war Japan. The daughter, Nori, is 27 years old and her aunt, father, and friends all feel it is time for her to marry. However, Nori is extremely close to her father and fears that marriage would separate the two of them. Throughout the film, Nori's father encourages her to accept the arranged marriage that her aunt proposes. Although the father knows he will be incredibly lonely without his daughter, he wants Nori to create her own family and move on with her life.
The style of this film was very different than that of American movies I have seen from the same time period. The most noticeable difference for me was the pace of the movie. Although the scenes with dialogue kept a quick pace, there were many scenes of people walking, performers, or trains which flowed quite slowly and focused more on the aesthetics of the scene than the film's plot.
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