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In Search of Ozu

Late Autumn

2h 8m

Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1960 • Japan

The great actress and Ozu regular Setsuko Hara plays a mother gently trying to persuade her daughter to marry in this glowing portrait of family love and conflict; a reworking of Ozu's 1949 masterpiece Late Spring.

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