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 | | In Yasujiro Ozu's "Late Spring" (1949), Noriko (Setsuko Hara, center) happily lives with her father (Chishu Ryu, left) and is equally happy being single like her friend Aya (Yumeji Tsukioka), but that doesn't stop Noriko's aunt from trying to marry off her niece before she's too old. |
 | | Late in the film, threatened by the marriage, Noriko keeps picking things up and putting them on a table, compulsively acting out her domestic happiness. |
 | | "Late Spring" is a film about two people who desperately do not believe this, and about how they are undone by their tact, their concern for each other, and their need to make others comfortable by seeming to agree with them. |
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