Movie
An Autumn Afternoon
Overview
Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
Details
- Release date
- 1962-11-18
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Shochiku, Shochiku Ofuna Film Studio
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Chishū Ryū as Shuhei Hirayama
- Shima Iwashita as Michiko Hirayama
- Keiji Sada as Koichi
- Mariko Okada as Akiko
- Teruo Yoshida as Yutaka Miura
- Noriko Maki as Fusako Taguchi
- Shinichirō Mikami as Kazuo
- Nobuo Nakamura as Shuzo Kawai
- Eijirō Tōno as Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
- Kuniko Miyake as Nobuko
- Kyôko Kishida as Madame Kaoru
- Ryuji Kita as Tamako
Crew
- Yasujirō Ozu - Director
- Kōgo Noda - Screenplay
- Yasujirō Ozu - Screenplay
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