An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji)

“The Elements of an Ozu Film” 19%: People walking in-and-out of rooms. 37%: People struggling with the modernization of Japan—esp. how it relates to the family unit. 44%: People apologizing for the way they acted when they got drunk the previous night.

matthewcutchen

Poem written by Yasujirō Ozu on the death of his mother in 1962: Down in the valley it is already spring Clouds of cherry blossoms; But here, the sluggish eye, the taste of mackerel - The blossoms are melancholy And the flavor of sake becomes bitter. Note: 'the taste of…

trolleyfreak

I want to say this was too direct, too straight forward a film for me, but despite this inclination, it still left me devastated. This film is about the fear of loneliness, faced boldly, and loneliness itself, warmly embraced. It's about sacrifice, and it is about being at…

Sally Jane Black

Chishu Ryu has the nicest face in cinema history

David Sims

Ozu's last film before he died, An Autumn Afternoon once again deals with one of his favourite themes: tradition vs. modernity. And, yet again, there's a daughter who needs to get married. The story may be simple but only on surface. Ozu's understanding of human nature…

mike_sabathia

More drinking than a Hong Sangsoo film. Hilarious and devastatingly sad, often simultaneously. Ozu's most explicit references to the war, in a film in which almost every shot contains red, white and blue. The Battleship March is one of the great musical sequences. My…

Sean Gilman

The central tension in this movie — a close domestic bond and partnership between a widowed father and his adult daughter is abruptly ended when the father decides that it is time for her to be married — is the same as in Ozu's Late Spring, but the emotional impact is…

Will Sloan

A bittersweet very funny and not so quiet devasting movie about things ending and starting that is animated by its many paradoxes. One of the major tragedies of Ozu's western appreciation is that he has been dead from pretty the whole time he has being known here and this…

Filipe Furtado

Ozu é um poeta que faz filmes ou um cineasta que cria poesia? Ozu é tão meticuloso com suas imagens quanto um poeta com cada palavra. Ozu mostra a condição humana em sua essência mais simples. "A Rotina Tem Seu Encanto" não é só o último filme de Ozu, é também uma despedida…

Barmilliv