This 1956 feature, a casual yet meticulously detailed reconstruction of Japan’s routinized white-collar milieu, was Yasujiro Ozu’s first film after the exquisite Tokyo Story, as well as one of his longest works. A young office worker finds both his job and his marriage sinking into drudgery, but after a brief flirtation with a female coworker and a transfer to the country, he decides to start fresh. In Japanese with subtitles.
Early Spring
NR • 2 hours 24 min • 1956