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Late Spring/晩春 (Banshun) | Yasujirō Ozu | 1949In an Ozu film, you are instantly invited into a story, and you are also invited into the past of the character. They have a past. It’s not just a movie with a beginning and an end. It has already begun and it’s going on, as life is going on.
— Claire Denis, director of films such as 35 Shots of Rum (which was heavily inspired by Late Spring) and White Material.
Gonna watch this movie soon.
This is my favorite scene...the film, I think. I’ve written about it before, and my own...
Late Spring 晩春 (Banshun) | Yasujirō Ozu, 1949 “In an Ozu film, you are instantly invited into a story, and you are also...