Noriko lives in postwar Tokyo with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her friends, her more traditionally minded family worries about the fact that she's still single at the advanced age of 28. When 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes marriage, Noriko's family press her into accepting. But when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.

Keywords: marriage-proposal, independent-film, post-world-war-ii,

Title: Early Summer
Imdb rate: 8.2
Imdb votes: 7,135
Year: 1951
Language: Japanese, English
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Writers: Kôgo Noda, Yasujirô Ozu
Actors:
Setsuko Hara
Chishû Ryû
Chikage Awashima
Kuniko Miyake

Awards: 7 wins.