Il gusto del sakè

A widower’s daughter handles the house while he pines for her future. When he finally pushes her to leave home instead of anchoring him he starts to understand the cost of his selfishness. A melancholy snapshot of 1960s Tokyo that moves like a slow sigh.

Streaming availability changes weekly. Check the Where to watch panel above — we re-pull TMDB's JustWatch index every week. If nothing's listed, the film is between licence windows.

Our similarity graph picks 6 films based on shared director, keywords, mood-cluster overlap, and MovieLens user co-rating — niche-biased away from blockbusters. Full list: /like/an-autumn-afternoon-1962/.

Yasujirō Ozu directed Il gusto del sakè in 1962. See Yasujirō Ozu's full filmography, where to start with Yasujirō Ozu, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yasujirō Ozu.

Il gusto del sakè was released in 1962 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 113 minutes.