Japanese-Language Films

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 184. Chapters: Late Spring, K-On!, Higurashi When They Cry, Kimi ni Todoke, Rurouni Kenshin, Heaven's Lost Property, Cyborg 009, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Battle Royale (film), Hunter x Hunter, Summer Wars, Branded to Kill, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, The Human Centipede (First Sequence), Haku ki, A Certain Magical Index, Kekko Kamen, Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, Nodame Cantabile, Akira (film), Love Com, Arrietty, GeGeGe no Kitaro, Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Kaiji (manga), Pretty Cure Splash Star, The End of Evangelion, Pearl Harbor (film), Spirited Away. Excerpt: Late Spring Banshun) is a 1949 Japanese drama film, directed by Yasujir Ozu and produced by the Shochiku studio. It is based on the short novel Father and Daughter (Chichi to musume) by the 20th century novelist and critic Kazuo Hirotsu, and was adapted for the screen by Ozu and his frequent collaborator, screenwriter Kogo Noda. The film was written and shot during the Allied Powers' Occupation of Japan and was subject to the Occupation's official censorship requirements. It stars Chishu Ryu, a performer featured in almost all of the director's films, and Setsuko Hara, making her first of six appearances in Ozu's cinema. It is the first installment of Ozu's so-called "Noriko trilogy"-the others are Early Summer (Bakushu, 1951) and Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari, 1953)-in each of which Hara portrays a young woman named Noriko, though the three Norikos are completely distinct and unrelated characters, linked primarily by their status as single women in postwar Japan. Late Spring belongs to the type of Japanese film known as shomingeki, a genre that deals with the ordinary daily lives of working class and middle class people of modern times. The film is frequently regarded as the...