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Late Spring/晩春 (Banshun) |  Yasujirō Ozu | 1949

In an Ozu film, you are instantly invited into a story, and you are also invited into the past of the character. They have a past. It’s not just a movie with a beginning and an end. It has already begun and it’s going on, as life is going on.

— Claire Denis, director of films such as 35 Shots of Rum (which was heavily inspired by Late Spring) and White Material.

from elposter