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Late Spring

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23 feature instances
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Late Spring	type	TVTItem
Late Spring	label	Late Spring
Late Spring	page	LateSpring
Late Spring	comment	Late Spring (晩春, Banshun) is a 1949 film directed by Yasujiro Ozu, co-written by Ozu and his writing partner Kogo Noda, starring frequent Ozu players Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara.Shukichi (Ryu) is a professor and a widower. He lives alone with his only child, daughter Noriko (Hara), who is unmarried at the age of 27. Noriko keeps house for her father while he goes about his academic work. 27 years old is considered verging on Old Maid status in Japan, but Noriko has no real urge to get married and is content to live at home and look after her father. Noriko's Aunt Masa, however, wants her niece to get married before it's too late. Masa approaches Shukichi and he agrees to get Noriko married off, even at the cost of his own happiness.Compare another Ozu film, Early Summer (1951), which also starred Setsuko Hara as a character named Noriko (but not the same character), and has very similar story elements, with the Noriko character being pressured by her family into an undesired Arranged Marriage. And then there was Late Autumn (1960)—seriously, Ozu was into Theme Naming—which also starred Setsuko Hara, and was a remake of this film, but with Hara playing the role of the parent instead. And then there was An Autumn Afternoon—we weren't kidding about the Theme Naming—which had a similar premise but wasn't so negative about the idea of the marriage.
Late Spring	fetched	2023-04-02T08:43:12Z
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Late Spring	isPartOf	DBTropes
Late Spring / int_1af2b763	type	Celebrity Resemblance
Late Spring / int_1af2b763	comment	Celebrity Resemblance: Noriko's proposed match Satake is said to look like Gary Cooper, "the man from that baseball movie."
Late Spring / int_1af2b763	featureApplicability	1.0
Late Spring / int_1af2b763	featureConfidence	1.0
Late Spring	hasFeature	Late Spring / int_1af2b763
Late Spring / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Late Spring / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Satake, the man Noriko is matched up with who is said to resemble Gary Cooper, is never seen.
Late Spring / int_1ba17583	featureApplicability	1.0
Late Spring / int_1ba17583	featureConfidence	1.0
Late Spring	hasFeature	Late Spring / int_1ba17583
Late Spring / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Late Spring / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Shukichi truly loves Noriko and doesn't want her to get married just because her being an Old Maid is an embarrassment to him; he acknowledges that he's getting older and knows that he can't take care of her forever, as she has no job or other marriage prospects and is completely dependent on him. However, his insistence even as she pleads with him to reconsider leads to her being miserable in a marriage she doesn't want while he's stuck alone at home.
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Late Spring	hasFeature	Late Spring / int_20989d05
Late Spring / int_2c11d835	type	Kitchen Sink Drama
Late Spring / int_2c11d835	comment	Kitchen Sink Drama: A man in late middle age worries about getting his only daughter married.
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Late Spring	hasFeature	Late Spring / int_2c11d835
Late Spring / int_4b86a724	type	Getting Crap Past the Radar
Late Spring / int_4b86a724	comment	Getting Crap Past the Radar: Yasujiro Ozu was generally thought to be a conservative who valued Japanese tradition and old-style values, which is why his films are so typically "Japanese", as opposed to Akira Kurosawa who made more West-friendly movies. Lars-Martin Sorensen in his book Censorship of Japanese Films During the U.S. Occupation of Japan: The Cases of Yasujirō Ozu and Akira Kurosawa observes that despite being made in 1949, when the United States was occupying Japan and American censors were controlling Japanese films, it seems to have a carefully hidden message decrying Western values. Note the scene where Noriko and a friend cross a bridge on bicycles, while a sign saying "Drink Coca-Cola" in English is prominent in the foreground. This is often cited as a dig at Western commercialism.
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Late Spring / int_4b86a724	featureConfidence	1.0
Late Spring	hasFeature	Late Spring / int_4b86a724
Late Spring / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Late Spring / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Noriko is basically badgered into a marriage she doesn't want by her father and aunt. Shukichi for his part is left at home alone, in despair.
Late Spring / int_4e3d253b	featureApplicability	1.0
Late Spring / int_4e3d253b	featureConfidence	1.0
Late Spring	hasFeature	Late Spring / int_4e3d253b
Late Spring / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
Late Spring / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Subverted. Noriko seems happy with Satake at first, but it becomes clear as time goes on that she's just putting up a charade so she won't worry her father.
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Late Spring	hasFeature	Late Spring / int_629fa757
Late Spring / int_6752f60d	type	Signature Shot
Late Spring / int_6752f60d	comment	Signature Shot: Features multiple examples of the Signature Shot of Ozu's career: conversations between two characters framed as shot-reverse shot exchanges in which each character is in the center of the frame.
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Late Spring / int_7e081ea0	type	Slice of Life
Late Spring / int_7e081ea0	comment	Slice of Life: A man in late middle age worries about his daughter getting married before it's too late.
Late Spring / int_7e081ea0	featureApplicability	1.0
Late Spring / int_7e081ea0	featureConfidence	1.0
Late Spring	hasFeature	Late Spring / int_7e081ea0
Late Spring / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Late Spring / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Shukichi and Masa arrange a marriage for Noriko.
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Late Spring / int_80621707	featureConfidence	1.0
Late Spring	hasFeature	Late Spring / int_80621707
Late Spring / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Late Spring / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Noriko wears that smile plastered over her face for most of the movie—when she's calling Onodura "filthy", when she's insulting Aya, when she begs her father not to make her get married, and on the day of the marriage she doesn't want.
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Late Spring / int_9ebfc83a	type	Japanese Politeness
Late Spring / int_9ebfc83a	comment	Japanese Politeness: Noriko still manages to be smiling and cheerful as she tells Prof. Onodera that she finds it "distasteful" and "filthy" that he got remarried after his wife died. She is also grinning broadly when she tells her divorced friend Aya "Who are you to lecture me about marriage?" Noriko finally drops the Stepford Smiler routine is when she's told that Masa might match up her father with a new wife. She's actually quite upset for most of the rest of the movie.
Late Spring / int_9ebfc83a	featureApplicability	1.0
Late Spring / int_9ebfc83a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Late Spring / int_b2af79fb	type	Leave the Camera Running
Late Spring / int_b2af79fb	comment	Leave the Camera Running: In one scene, Masa is at her tatami mat on the floor when the bell rings on the door. The camera continues to point, fixed, at the tatami mat while Masa walks to the door, going out of focus, and greets her caller. Then the camera still stays on the mat as she walks back and crosses the frame to the right, and only then is there a cut.
Late Spring / int_b2af79fb	featureApplicability	1.0
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Late Spring	hasFeature	Late Spring / int_b2af79fb
Late Spring / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Late Spring / int_b9c3de84	comment	Bumbling Dad: Downplayed. Shukichi is an intelligent academic, but he's basically useless around the household and needs Noriko to take care of everything. Notably, one of the reasons Noriko doesn't want to marry is that she wants to take care of him because she knows he'll suffer without her, though there's never a suggestion that he hires help or learns how to take care of himself.
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Late Spring / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
Late Spring / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: Due to differences in cultural values, some western critics have suggested repressed incest between Noriko and her father; she acts as something of a wife to him, sleeps close beside him when they travel together, and cannot imagine any possibility of married life making her happier than she is with her father. Her jealousy when her father shares a smile with another woman also comes off as unusually strong, and she's depressed for the rest of the movie.
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Late Spring	hasFeature	Late Spring / int_bdc453a0
Late Spring / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
Late Spring / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: Noriko's traditional values align the most with Ozu's, and it's hard to watch her get pushed into a marriage she doesn't want because her relatives are worried about her becoming a spinster when she's perfectly happy living with her father. On the other hand, she is completely dependent on him financially, her frustration often resembles childishness at being told to grow up, and Shukichi has a point that she needs to seek her own happiness, as he's getting older and she can't stay with him forever.
Late Spring / int_c02f148d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Late Spring / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Late Spring / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Shukichi. He's affable and easygoing, and everybody seems to like him.
Late Spring / int_c5249b29	featureApplicability	1.0
Late Spring / int_c5249b29	featureConfidence	1.0
Late Spring	hasFeature	Late Spring / int_c5249b29
Late Spring / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
Late Spring / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: Noriko and Shukichi retire for the evening and she turns out the light, but a beam coming from somewhere is still artfully lighting her face as she talks to her father.
Late Spring / int_ca81eae7	featureApplicability	1.0
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Late Spring / int_d3427b48	type	Yamato Nadeshiko
Late Spring / int_d3427b48	comment	Yamato Nadeshiko: Noriko is loyal, loving, gentle, and devoted to her father.
Late Spring / int_d3427b48	featureApplicability	1.0
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Late Spring	hasFeature	Late Spring / int_d3427b48
Late Spring / int_de19df2b	type	The Matchmaker
Late Spring / int_de19df2b	comment	The Matchmaker: Aunt Masa is positively pushy about it.
Late Spring / int_de19df2b	featureApplicability	1.0
Late Spring / int_de19df2b	featureConfidence	1.0
Late Spring	hasFeature	Late Spring / int_de19df2b
Late Spring / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Late Spring / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Shukichi eventually has to go out of his way to almost force an arranged marriage for his daughter, Noriko. However, he is merely doing it so she can move on and not have to worry so much about him. He loves his daughter like good father would and this makes the forceful choice all the more difficult on him. Noriko's aunt even more so. She also cares about Noriko's and her growth to maturity. She does seem to be a normal person but she will go even farther and be more controlling than Shukichi will be.
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Late Spring / int_ff2ceef1	type	Old Maid
Late Spring / int_ff2ceef1	comment	Old Maid: Shukichi and Masa are motivated to find 27-year-old Noriko a husband before it's too late.
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Late Spring	hasFeature	Celebrity Resemblance / int_8c19b74d
Late Spring	hasFeature	Christmas Cake / int_8c19b74d
Late Spring	hasFeature	Japanese Politeness / int_8c19b74d
Late Spring	hasFeature	Old Maid / int_8c19b74d

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