An Autumn Afternoon

Nov 18, 1962

1h 53m

★ 7.9

Overview

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Shochiku

Shochiku Ofuna Film Studio

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Cast

Shuhei Hirayama

Chishū Ryū

Michiko Hirayama

Shima Iwashita

Koichi

Keiji Sada

Akiko

Mariko Okada

Yutaka Miura

Teruo Yoshida

Fusako Taguchi

Noriko Maki

Kazuo

Shinichirō Mikami

Shuzo Kawai

Nobuo Nakamura

Sakuma, The 'Gourd'

Eijirō Tōno

Nobuko

Kuniko Miyake

Madame Kaoru

Kyôko Kishida

Tamako

Ryuji Kita

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