Synopsis
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
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Cast
- Setsuko HaraAkiko
- Yōko TsukasaNoriko
- Michiyo AratamaFumiko
- Keiju KobayashiHisao
- Masahiko ShimazuMasao
- Hisaya MorishigeIsomura Eiichirou
- Chieko NaniwaSasaki Tsune
- Reiko DanYuriko
- Haruko SugimuraKatou Shige
- Daisuke KatōKitagawa Yanosuke
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Screen Rant
Ozu's penultimate movie, The End Of Summer, was part of his color films made during the late 50s and early 60s...The End Of Summer contrasts the negative sides of both traditional and modern Japanese life during that period. - 90
The Telegraph
The diversity of the human elements - the wonderful accumulation of interlinked characters and situations in Nakamura's family, daughters, ex-mistresses, business associates, sisters, brothers - builds impassively to a harrowing, unusually bleak climax in which death claims its due and the consolation offered is disturbingly minimal, tenderly as we feel for those bereaved. [20 Mar 2004] - 80
BBC
Ozu's pared-down visual style facilitates our involvement with these 'ordinary' characters, who are struggling to reconcile their feelings of duty and desire, and to accept life's inevitable changes. - 80
Empire
Written with great insight by Kogo Noda and filmed with painterly delicacy by Asakazu Nakai, though Ozu's touch brings the magic to this domestic drama. - 80
Time Out
Another gem (given his consistency in style and subject, how could it not be? ); the atypically emphatic music alone disappoints. [06 Aug 2003, p.74]
