# Early Spring (1956)

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**Original title**: *早春*
**Runtime**: 145 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance
**Directed by**: Yasujirō Ozu
**Written by**: Yasujirō Ozu, Kōgo Noda
**Starring**: Chikage Awashima, Ryō Ikebe, Keiko Kishi, Teiji Takahashi, Chishū Ryū, So Yamamura

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

The film takes a humdrum suburban marriage and watches it wilt like a houseplant in need of sunlight. He drifts into someone else’s orbit while she politely arranges the curtains. It plants the seeds of quiet discontent and lets them grow.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, outsider, slow-burn, tender

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