A widowed professor lives with his doting and dutiful daughter. He worries that she will never marry and move on, so pretends that he is himself considering a new marriage in order to prompt her to take seriously the suitors he introduces her to.
Profoundly moving, this gorgeous and unparalleled classic from Yasujirō Ozu transcends its father-daughter drama to find a universal, and always inevitable tension between tradition and modernity. An absolute and indubitable masterpiece—as well as Ozu’s first film (of six!) with star Setsuko Hara.
France
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