And some people thought, and probably still do, that Ozu was too "Japanese" to be appreciated elsewhere. The truth is, like all of the greatest artists, he belongs to the world.

@nachtegaelemiel7924

3 жыл бұрын

I see what you mean. But it's only natural once does not understand everything. The translation alone accounts for a loss in meaning.

@MrGrass97

2 жыл бұрын

Very beautifully said. True artists speak to a universal truth in humanity. Which Ozu unquestionably did.

Late Spring is my favorite Ozu film and an all-time favorite overall. Did Setsuko Hara ever give a mediocre performance? She puts most actresses to absolute shame. It's hard to take the melodramatic screaming and tantrums of Hollywood style acting seriously after watching her for even a few moments. If I was an actor, she'd be someone I'd study quite frequently.

This is such a profound film. In 1949, right after the war, so many young people in Japan must have been feeling like the daughter in this movie: traumatized and afraid of the future, afraid of venturing forth out of a family or a way of life that felt familiar and safe.

@NathalieMa

6 жыл бұрын

Really great point!

@charlie-obrien

11 ай бұрын

The influence and trauma of the recent war in this film is ever present. It just about becomes a character, and Ozu represents it in many ways.

Thank you Setsuko Hara. You were truly incredible.

"Couldn't be helped, it was the most important lie of my life" This movie made me fall in love with Chishuu Ryuu. Such a gentle and kind presence

Very few movies have moved me as much as Yasujiro Ozu's "Late Spring." And remember, I've also seen his film "Tokyo Story." I adored this movie the first time I saw it, I adore it more with each viewing, and it always leaves me thinking. A great work of art by one of cinema's masters.

@YandTrocksuptheirons

9 жыл бұрын

TheUnknown837 also recommend checking out An Autumn Afternoon, probably my favorite Ozu

@PatrickGalvan91

9 жыл бұрын

Danny Ervin I own that film as well!

I feel about this movie the way the daughter feels about her father. It's an amazing experience. I cannot fathom its magic any more than I can resist the spell it casts over me.

笠 智衆この時まだ45歳、4年後に公開された東京物語で49歳。 70前後に見えたが演技なのか地なのか、老け役が見事にはまってた味のある役者でした。

This might be the best marriage advice anyone can give. Nothing is guaranteed but it's possible if you give yourself fully to it.

One of the best film scenes I've seen. Something sublime about this conversation that stay with me for a long time.

@tomc8115

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know if it's the best single scene, but when you combine it with the wedding scene to follow, it makes for the best back-to-back scenes in a movie I can think of.

You never see a beautiful scene like this in modern films: A father telling his daughter about the effort it takes to make a successful marriage. Fathers have too often been reduced to moronic jokes in modern films.

@omarlerouge5420

4 жыл бұрын

it won't be a 'good' movie today. critics would nip it in the bud : too naive, too simple, boring.. people today in the west don't value virtue, order, loyalty, commitement and honor. that's why divorces are exploding, women don't want to work for anything, they want to full package, the 6 foot white dude with a jawline a 6 figures income .. it's impulsive, fast, cliché. 90% of men are just invisible for western women.

@danielyoung6778

3 жыл бұрын

Watch better modern film's man. Great film's come out every year and you're only hurting yourself by missing them, it doesn't discredit the great art of the past and you'll only be better for having both.

@ooooo000ooooo

3 жыл бұрын

Omar H. Don’t ruin this with ethnicel nonsense

@anuragate9282

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielyoung6778 I don't see any modern Hollywood movies that appreciates Family values, Commitment, respect to the elders and soft spokeness. All today's movies are promoting are perverted Dad jokes, Multiple sexual relationships , divorce, drugs and what not woke stuff combined with some conservative cringe. Not to mention the glorious culture showcaed in Ozu movies along with coming of age drama - all this fits in right proportion rather than dispersed propaganda in Hollywood films. Only Modern films sticking to a particular genre and filmmaking concepts are good today .

@danielyoung6778

2 жыл бұрын

@@anuragate9282 ozu wasn't Hollywood and the great films of today aren't either. Hollywood is the drek of filmmaking and should not be considered when talking about it as an artform. To place yourself in the Hollywood binary is to be disappointed. Just by your comment I'm 100% I disagree with you on social values but again if you hate Hollywood watch the great true films that come out every year, I'm sure you'll find plenty of worth if you keep an open mind.

When ones love for another transcends love for ones self. 😢

A masterpiece......

Such beauty, such poetry. Truly a great work of art. ありがとうございました。

Thank you Warong, for gently reminding us that "Happiness comes only through effort" and the people who have loved really know

RIP Setsuko Hara

I wish Shukichi, the father, had at least honored Noriko’s feelings, perhaps saying wistfully “I wish we could stay together, too,” before telling her that she and Satake must forge happiness together. For me, it would have made a much more poignant moment. But, perhaps, the fact that he won’t-or can’t-say that underlines the pain of the scene.

@Lllswe

Жыл бұрын

Can’t say… I agree that might be the best tragic point of the film

So achingly sad, their last trip together before the daughter gets married. All parents will feel this scene. The great Setsuko Hara and the almost as great Chishû Ryû doing their best to open the flood gates. And succeeding. 4:08 when her bowed head drops even further: like an arrow through the heart.

@tomc8115

2 жыл бұрын

Says it's all without saying a word

原節子美しい顔💖😌素敵ですね❗

Anyone notice "Thus Spoke zarathustra" at 1:02

her smile

He said the 2 most truthful things: marriage isn't the means to happiness, (on my view) its something destiny has arranged to mould and test our characters. Secondly, he said to give her filial love now to her husband. Very biblical to cut soul ties.

@jeremiahliang8273

3 жыл бұрын

* (in my view)

This was a great clip...thank you for posting it.

Hara san and father rip

i just found out. I'm so sad I've been watching her movies for the past few months.

Such amazing unique movies he made

Aquesta extraordinària escena no només serveix per comprendre la mentalitat japonesa en general, sinó per entendre el concepte d'humanitat inherent a la cultura japonesa. Destaca tant l'actitud del pare que desitja la felicitat de la filla més allà de sí mateix, com l'actitud de la filla que obté la seva felicitat renunciant a la seva pròpia i fent feliç el pare.

Happy marriage is a very rare thing... 50-60% of marriages end in divorce... and there is also a hidden statistics... Lots of couples who keep living in marriage actually are strangers under one roof...

@mkitahara

6 жыл бұрын

"Happiness comes only through effort". It's only couples who both put in the effort that make up the successful 40-50%

@gordonf4723

4 жыл бұрын

This is only in the West, ironically where true love is a virtue. In other areas and historically, marriage was never about love, but for family. Individualism is good, but dont get it twisted.

@jorgesaito461

Жыл бұрын

"And your mother loves your father cause she's got nowhere to go" Goo Goo Dolls

I love this film. This scene is so simple visually, yet so powerful....and so Japanese (at least of that time). Wonderfully done.

@tomc8115

9 ай бұрын

The last twenty minutes of this film is just one great scene after another. Masterpiece!

lovely if sad film!

笠さんいいおとうさん❗😌

for all the lover's of this sublime film please check out Katherine Lam's beautiful art prints on Black Dragon Press. They really are stunningly beautiful.

♡

I want a wife like her

この映画の冒頭に近い部分で、紀子は、大学の講義の準備を進める父からの麻雀の誘いを、「ダメよ!」の一言で窘めた。このような聡明な娘が、何故、この期に及んで、このように子供っぽい言葉をぶつけてきたのか?そこには、深い子細がありそうである。 紀子の行為は、父親から、あの黄金の言葉を引き出す為のものだったと、僕は考える。そして、その言葉を言い聞かせることが、彼女よりも、父親自身が必要としていると、彼女は判断したのだろう。紀子への父親の愛情は、明らかに、亡き妻への愛情が投影されている。再婚は、危険な賭けであった。 全てを成し遂げた後の、彼女の、晴れやかな笑顔を見よ!

3:16

こんなキレイな娘に「お父さんといたいの。お嫁に行きたくないの」なんて言われたら、今のたいがいのオトーサンは鼻の下伸ばして、ヨシヨシしてしまうだろ。 笠智衆みたいな立派な説教できる人格者のお父さんはそうはいないと思う

It is quite misguiding to judge that gender norm in Japan is exceptionally conservative. At least Ozu himself is arguing us to precisely conceive of the restrictive property of the patriarchic structure, and at the same time, hinting us how the system ramifies a myriad of fragile aspects from individual grievance to the attrition of family values. Moreover, he try to gauge how to existentially struggle under the culture, which is by no means confined to the Japanese society but to the whole humanity. His films always seems Faucauldian, which was earlier than the brilliant theorist himself.

I can't shake off the feeling that this girl has a bit of an electra complex.

@DWHarper62

2 жыл бұрын

The daughter, Noriko, had a traumatic slave labor war experience that left her sick and emaciated, so the years back with her father after the war left her clinging to the warmth of her father, who treated her beautifully, regaining her strength and health back in her father's home... Watch the whole movie...

@Flackack

Жыл бұрын

@@DWHarper62 Her experience during the war is crucial to her character, indeed.

"So you do understand." Savage by Japanese standards.

I came here to find the “happiness” phrase, but I leave with a bitter taste in the mouth. How awful must be to be forced to marry. And this goes for any culture that treats women as property.

@zyrrhos

8 ай бұрын

Sounds like you've been conditioned by modern woke ideology and are applying it to another place and time. Have you watched the entire film? This is a beautiful scene. A father telling his daughter about the effort it takes to make a successful marriage. Instead of what we get today: fathers being reduced to moronic jokes. This might be the best marriage advice anyone can give. "Happiness comes only through effort." My mom essentially told me the same thing about her marriage to my dad, and it lasted 51 years until her death.

It sure does not look lik’e she was happy marrying him. Feels like she’s hiding her true feelings from her father.

@hadeed-_-5678

4 жыл бұрын

That's what it felt like to me too. Really hasn't aged well

@NepaliFolk

4 жыл бұрын

Of course the depth of this dialogue is beyond comprehension for westerner.

@kimberlykweder2840

4 жыл бұрын

@@NepaliFolk I'm reviewing it again and learning something new from the dialogue. She is trying to honor her father so much. She loves her father dearly. I like what the father said about happiness.

@mv8858

3 жыл бұрын

​@@hadeed-_-5678 it reflects on the culture but it's more of a voluntary sacrifice she makes out of love although in actuality he is sacrificing his desires to keep her around because he knows it is ultimately not fair to her in the long-run. The ability for both to do so is considered a value and also touches on the inevitable/painful acceptance of how all fathers have to depart from their daughter's life at some point. It's easy to perceive in a negative light based on American standards and social norms

Is Ozu movie so stupid?

@HP_____

4 ай бұрын

No. Your question is.

i was told to watch this movie. but i am shocked at how average it is. im sorry but this movie is really typical in asian cinema. i grown up in southeast asia, this kind of films are like normal daily drama. in malay telenovela, malay evening drama, P.Ramlee films, indonesian sinetron, heck even Bollywood also are flooded with this kind of theme. its just an average film for asian cultures, but it may be alien to westerners.

@emptylikebox

4 жыл бұрын

It's not the theme of his films that make them special. Ozu has a very distinctive style. You think it's just ordinary because most of those directors that you are pertaining to were influenced by Ozu that's why they have similar style.

@NepaliFolk

4 жыл бұрын

There is a difference between your Islamic Sharia inspired movies and a movie based on Polytheist religion like Shintoism. This is not something you can understand.

@malayneum

4 жыл бұрын

@@NepaliFolk we are south east asians, we have the most diverse culture and religion than you can imagine. your statement can only come from an ignoramus. go outside and see the real world.

@NepaliFolk

4 жыл бұрын

malayneum You are a Muslim. Like I said subtlety of polytheistic religion is beyond your grasp. And what has Islam got to do with South East Asia? Absolutely nothing.

@malayneum

4 жыл бұрын

@@NepaliFolk You are a bigoted racist. Talk to yourself. Bye.