Early Summer 1951 123movies

Watch: 麦秋 1951 123movies, Full Movie Online – In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko, their married son, his devoted wife, and two rascally sons. Their only discontent is Noriko’s lack of a husband. Society is changing: she works, she has women friends who tease and argue, her brother sees her independence as impudence, she sees it as normal. When her boss suggests that she marry a 40-year-old bachelor who is his friend, all the members of her family press her to accept. Without seeking their advice, and to their chagrin, Noriko determines her own course of action..
Plot: Noriko, still single at the advanced age of 28, lives contentedly in an extended family household that includes her parents and her brother’s family. An uncle’s visit prompts the family to find her a husband.
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Ratings:

	8.1/10 Votes: 8,725
	100% | RottenTomatoes
	94/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 122 Popularity: 9.338 | TMDB

Reviews:

A wonderful discovery
I had seen Tokyo Story and respected it. But Early Summer is a charming, poignant and very human movie that stands the test of time. It is the story of Noriko, a 28-year-old administrative assistant who is under pressure from her family to marry. To put this in perspective, in traditional Japan, a woman married by age 25, or she was considered a “Christmas cake “– nobody wanted it after the 25th! It is not as common in Japan now for women to face such pressure, especially since so many Japanese women are choosing to stay single, now that they have the money to be independent. However, Noriko’s case would have been common up until the current generation of women.

While the war is not a character in the movie, there are threads that connect Early Summer to World War II. The movie takes place in 1951, just before Japan emerged from the U.S. occupation, and before Japanese society had its great explosion of wealth in the 1960s. It is a snapshot of a time that no longer exists, although the family conflicts are universal. I plan to add Early Summer to my list of top movies and look forward to viewing it again.

Top Notch Ozu
As other readers already commented, Early Summer (or Bakushu, made in 1951) is easy to confuse with another movie by Ozu made during the same period: Late Spring (1949). Aside from the references to the seasons in the title, both deal with the “problem” of the Setsuko Hara character (she of the ever wonderful smile) still being unmarried in her late twenties. (Ironically, in real life, Setsuko Hara never married and become something of a recluse in later years). Curiously, Chishu Ryu, who played her father in Late Spring, plays her brother in Early Summer. The slight plot deals with the pressure and machinations made by the extended family to find a suitable husband for her. When she finally does find a husband, however, is not the one they were expecting. Her new husband would have to move to another city for job reasons soon, and that means the splintering of her family: without her contribution to the rent (she works as a tourist guide, as so many young unmarried women in Japanese movies of the 1950s), the family will not be able to afford living in the same house. Her actions would eventually mean the return of her parents to the countryside. That means the movie ends in a bittersweet note: on the one side, Hara has attained some degree of freedom in choosing her own spouse, but for her family, this freedom would end up hurting them financially and emotionally.

Other Information:

Original Language ja
Runtime 2 hr 5 min (125 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Yasujirô Ozu
Writer Kôgo Noda, Yasujirô Ozu
Actors Setsuko Hara, Chishû Ryû, Chikage Awashima
Country Japan
Awards 7 wins
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,410 m (13 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm