The End of Summer (1961) on Netflix
Manbei Kohayagawa runs a small sake brewery outside Kyoto, and wants his widowed daughter Akiko and unmarried daughter Noriko settled. He also slips away to visit a former mistress.
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Plot summary
Manbei Kohayagawa's sake brewery outside Kyoto does not do well against the bigger sake companies, and he is approaching old age. His daughter Fumiko lives with him, and her husband Hisao works at the brewery. Two more daughters live in Osaka: Akiko, widowed, who works at an art gallery and is raising her son, and Noriko, an office clerk who has never married. Manbei asks his brother-in-law Kitagawa to arrange meetings with possible husbands for both women. Akiko is content as she is, and Noriko has told Akiko that a close friend, the teacher Tadashi Teramoto, has moved to Sapporo for work. Manbei has also met his former mistress, Tsune Sasaki, for the first time in nineteen years.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The End of Summer (1961)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The End of Summer is the only known surviving Yasujirō Ozu film to feature foreign actors: two uncredited men play Yuriko's interchangeable American boyfriends, George and Harry.
- Ozu agreed to direct The End of Summer for Toho only in order to secure its contract stars Setsuko Hara and Yoko Tsukasa for his earlier film Late Autumn. It ended up his only Toho film.
- Ozu added a scene at the end of the film to accommodate Toho's star Yūko Mochizuki, who had asked to be in it, along with his signature actor Chishū Ryū.
