
In the early 60's in Tokyo, the widower Hirayama is a former captain from the Japanese navy that works as a manager of a factory and lives with his twenty-four year-old daughter Michiko and his son Kazuo in his house. His older son Koichi is married with Akiko that are compulsive consumers and Akiko financially controls their expenses. Hirayama frequently meets his old friends Kawai and Professor Horie, who is married with a younger wife, to drink in a bar. When their school ... (Full plot summary below)
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In the early 60's in Tokyo, the widower Hirayama is a former captain from the Japanese navy that works as a manager of a factory and lives with his twenty-four year-old daughter Michiko and his son Kazuo in his house. His older son Koichi is married with Akiko that are compulsive consumers and Akiko financially controls their expenses. Hirayama frequently meets his old friends Kawai and Professor Horie, who is married with a younger wife, to drink in a bar. When their school teacher Sakuma comes to a reunion of Hirayama with old school mates, they learn that the old man lives with his daughter that stayed single to take care of him. Michiko lives a happy life with her father and her brother, but Hirayama feels that it is time to let her go and tries to arrange a marriage for her.
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| Total FilmPhilip KempMellow and rich in ironic humour, the film carries an undertow of gentle melancholy; as so often with Ozu, its ultimate message is that loneliness is the human condition. |
| Little White LiesAdam NaymanYasujiro Ozu's lilting swansong holds up as one of the director's greatest films. |
| VarietyVariety StaffThis view of contemporary middle class life in Japan is too leisurely paced, too sentimental in design and its humorous social comments too infrequent. |
| Classic Film and TelevisionMichael E. GrostRich drama about quiet male bonding has visual creativity. |
| Slant MagazineEric HendersonWhat do all these subtle modifications to the otherwise similar template suggest? |
| Irish TimesTara BradyYasujiro Ozu didn't know that this unbearably poignant 1962 drama would be his final film. But An Autumn Afternoon is as fitting a swansong as ever there was. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIt's also a remarkable example of a "last film." It sums up a career's worth of work, while simultaneously looking ahead and coming to terms with new ideas. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyThe fatal bargain of old age has rarely been observed as sharply as in Yasujiro Ozu's last film, from 1962. |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabYasujiro Ozu's final film, re-released in a restored version, is a stately, slow-burning but very moving family drama. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewOnly this film and Good Morning were made in colour, but Ozu applies it here with great care and precision, another mark of his sublime philosophical and cinematic continuity. |