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Equinox Flower

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Equinox Flower is a 1958 Japanese dramedy film directed by Yasujiro Ozu.Hirayama (Shin Saburi) is a fairly ordinary Tokyo businessman in late middle age. He is not as hidebound by tradition as some, as indicated by the sage advice he gives to a friend whose daughter has run away to be married. But when a man named Taniguchi (Keiji Sada) shows up at his office one day and asks for the hand of his daughter Setsuko (Ineko Arima) in marriage, Hirayama flips out. Angry over not being asked before Taniguchi and Setsuko chose each other, Hirayama refuses to consent to the marriage. It eventually becomes clear that his daughter is going to get married anyway, however, and Hirayama is left to make peace with his daughter's wedding and Japan's rapidly changing culture.
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 Bookends: Begins with workers at a railway station commenting on all the wedding parties arriving; ends with Hirayama on the train leaving to see his daughter and new son-in-law.
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 Arranged Marriage: The main story is about how these are going out of style in Japan. Hirayama gives a little speech about how his Arranged Marriage to Kiyoko turned out well, but that the modern generation has the better idea in letting young people choose their own partners.
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 Color Motif: After filming exclusively in black-and-white throughout a career that dated back to 1927, Ozu finally went to color with this film. And he went in whole hog, with a riot of colors throughout the movie, but especially the color red. There's red everywhere in this movie. Most prominent is a bright red teapot which shows up in every scene inside the Hirayama home, but there are other examples of red all over the place—purses, ashtrays, signs, barstools, placemats. Everywhere. This is no doubt referring to the "Equinox flower" which gives the film its name, and which is bright red. The equinox flower often blooms around graveyards and is associated with death.
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