Late Autumn (1960)

This makes an interesting companion to Late Spring, where Setsuko Hara is now the widowed mother of a reluctant to marry, unwed daughter. There’s the same wistful, gentleness that I’ve come to expect from many Ozu films, but now it’s in beautiful color and we have a younger, hipper generation battling with the same traditions that were seen in Late Spring. Yoko Tsukasa is delightful as the representative of this generation struggling against a trio of middle aged men, college friends of her father, who, along with almost everyone else she encounters, try to meddle in her personal life.