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Yasujiro Ozu-Soshun ('Early Spring') (1956)

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Yasujiro Ozu-Soshun ('Early Spring') (1956)

Yasujiro Ozu-Soshun ('Early Spring') (1956)
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A young salaried office worker is bored with both his job and his wife. He has a slight affair with the office flirt; he and his wife quarrel. Later he accepts a transfer to the country. Ozu said of the film, "Although I hadn't made a white-collar story for a long time, I wanted to show the life of a man with such a job - his happiness over graduation and finally becoming a member of society, his hopes for the future gradually dissolving, his realizing that, even though he has worked for years, he has accomplished nothing.". OzuFilms

Yasujiro Ozu-Soshun ('Early Spring') (1956)

Yasujiro Ozu-Soshun ('Early Spring') (1956)

Yasujiro Ozu-Soshun ('Early Spring') (1956)

What’s most notable about Early Spring (1956) are its plaintive, almost clinical discussion of themes and ideas about work and career in post-war Japan: it’s almost like an essay on the occupational transformation of the country in the 1950s dressed up like a family melodrama. The film follows young Shoji (Ryo Ikebe), who is supposed to be living the booming life of a new-Japan ‘salaryman’, but is instead dragging through his workdays with a loveless marriage and an ever-darkening view of the world around him. But Ozu doesn’t necessarily wallow in this shadowy world; he attempts to infuse a jolt of humanity into it. Shoji may very well be damned – can anyone who starts down the path truly escape from the corporate world? But Ozu wants us to empathize with him nevertheless, to come to terms with the fact that the faceless suits may, in fact, have broken dreams and failed lives that keep them in the hamster-wheel (and that it may behoove us as fellow humans to feel the ramifications of their pain). DVDFile

Yasujiro Ozu-Soshun ('Early Spring') (1956)

Yasujiro Ozu-Soshun ('Early Spring') (1956)

Yasujiro Ozu-Soshun ('Early Spring') (1956)

Like most of director Yasujiro Ozu's work, Early Spring is a deceptively simple family drama: a middle-aged office worker, bored with dreary routines of his job and his marriage, succumbs to a brief fling with the office flirt. His wife inevitably discovers his infidelity, but when he accepts a transfer to the country, she follows him to start their life anew. Ozu's depiction of marital difficulties is hardly depressing. Instead he employs his signature warmth, sensitivity, and humor to create a touching, thoughtful film. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

Yasujiro Ozu-Soshun ('Early Spring') (1956)

Yasujiro Ozu-Soshun ('Early Spring') (1956)

Yasujiro Ozu-Soshun ('Early Spring') (1956)