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Directed by Yasujiro Ozu

Equinox Flower

1h 58m

Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1958 • Japan

Later in his career, Ozu started becoming increasingly sympathetic with the younger generation, a shift that was cemented in Equinox Flower, his gorgeously detailed first color film, about an old-fashioned father and his newfangled daughter.

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