Late Spring—the best film by Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu and one of the greatest films ever made—is finally available on DVD. It’s the story of a widowed father and his daughter, played by two of Ozu ...

Late Spring (1949) is a Japanese drama film directed by the renowned filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu. A widower and his daughter share a heartwarming yet delicate bond in “Late Spring” (1949). Professor Tanaka ...

Benedict is a college graduate with a degree in Film and Screen Media and a future unemployed Letterboxd user. He got into movies through a childhood love of blockbusters and comic book movies, and ...

Adam Grinwald is a Feature Writer at Collider with a lifelong passion for cinema, literature, music, and culture. From the early days of memorizing practically every single line of dialogue off a ...

Veteran Japanese writer/director Yasujiro Ozu's second postwar production was 1949's Late Spring or Banshun. Chisu Ryu plays another of Ozu's realistic middle-class types, this time a widower with a ...

Ozu Yasujiro, the leading Japanese film director behind classics including “Tokyo Story” and “Late Spring,” has had his double birth and death anniversaries – Ozu died in 1963 on the day of his 60th ...