Equinox Flower (1958) on Netflix
Wataru Hirayama is a wealthy Tokyo businessman with liberal views about marriage. When a young man asks for his elder daughter Setsuko's hand, he learns the two have already decided.
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Plot summary
Wataru Hirayama is a wealthy businessman in Tokyo. His old schoolmate Mikami comes to him for help with his daughter Fumiko, who has left home after a quarrel with her father. Hirayama finds her working in a bar and hears her account: her father is stubborn and insists on an arranged marriage, while she loves a musician and wants to live as she chooses. At his office, a young man named Masahiko Taniguchi asks permission to marry Hirayama's elder daughter Setsuko. Hirayama is unhappy to learn that Setsuko has made her own wedding plans, confronts her at home, and forbids her to go to work. He questions a subordinate about Taniguchi.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Equinox Flower (1958)
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- Shochiku, which had borrowed the Daiei superstar Fujiko Yamamoto, asked Yasujirō Ozu to shoot Equinox Flower in color mainly to showcase her, and the movie is built around her with extended dialogue scenes.
- Yasujirō Ozu chose Agfa film from Germany over Kodak or Fujifilm for Equinox Flower because he felt it conveyed red colors better.
- Yasujirō Ozu's first film in color was Equinox Flower; Japan's first color film, Keisuke Kinoshita's Carmen Comes Home, had been released in 1951.
- Fujiko Yamamoto, the Daiei superstar Shochiku borrowed for the film, receives what may be the only solo screen credit in any of Yasujirō Ozu's films, which starred some of the biggest names in Japanese cinema.
