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"The story of a middle-aged widower (Chishu Ryu) who comes to realize that it is time for his 24-year-old daughter (Shima Iwashita) to marry."
"A gently heartbreaking story about a man's dignifed resignation to life's shifting currents and society's modernization. Though widower Shuhei has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure from their home."
"Yasujiro Ozu's final film was also his final masterpiece, the gently heartbreaking story of a man's dignified resignation to both life's ever-shifting currents and society's gradual modernization. Though widower Shuhei Hirayama (Ozu's frequent leading man Chishu Ryu) has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure. As elegantly composed and achingly tender as any of the Japanese master's films, An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji) is one of cinema's fondest farewells."
"In an increasingly Americanized Tokyo, a widower with a young daughter decides to marry her off rather than allow her to sacrifice her youth by taking care of him."
"After being urged by his friends to arrange a marriage for his daughter, Michiko, the widowed Hirayama finds himself facing old age alone. Ozu's last film is a complex reworking of strategies derived from earlier films. As in most of his later works, this film is structured as a series of parallels of character and setting, a matrix which is set up to be rigorously recycled. The central father-daughter relationship is a subtle variation on such relationships in other Ozu films. Nostalgia for the past is qualified and criticized. There is intense feeling but also an ironic distance from the characters. The narration also has an element of playfulness. Ozu is far from endorsing Hirayama's solitary and nostalgic despondency. Michiko is not the stereotyped passive woman."
"Set against a background of a colourful and increasingly Americanized Tokyo, this film tells the timeless tale of a father giving up his only daughter in marriage."
"Shuhei Hirayama, a middle aged widower, is reluctant to have his 24 year daughter, Michiko, get married since he wants her to take care of him for the rest of his life. Michiko is in love with her brother's colleague but she is too busy with her father and the man marries someone else before she has a chance to reveal her feelings for him. Starting to worry that Michiko might remain single forever, Shuhei arranges a marriage for his daughter. He is relieved that she is married, but at the same time feels great emptiness in his heart."
"Facing his own mortality, an aging widower hopes to alleviate his care-taking daughter's loneliness by arranging her marriage."
"Shuhei Hirayama, a middle aged widower, is reluctant to have his 24 year daughter, Michiko, get married since he wants her to take care of him for the rest of his life. Michiko is in love with her brother's colleague but she is too busy with her father and the man marries someone else before she has a chance to reveal her feelings for him. Starting to worry that Michiko might remain single forever, Shyuhei arranges a marriage for his daughter. He is relieved that she is married, but at the same time feels great emptiness in his heart."
""This serenely beautiful film tell the timeless, moving tale of a father giving up his only daughter in marriage.""
"Yasujiro Ozu's final film was also his final masterpiece, the gently heartbreaking story of a man's dignified resignation to both life's ever-shifting currents and society's gradual modernization. Though widower Shuhei Hirayama (Ozu's frequent leading man Chishu Ryu) has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure. As elegantly composed and achingly tender as any of the Japanese master's films, An Autumn afternoon (sanma no aji) is one of cinema's fondest farewells."