worse
Mother, a customer
Are you sure you're being wise?
I'II have another
Not overdoing it?
FeeI great. One more, anyway
WeIcome, good night
WeIcome
He's Ieaving Monday
They say it's a IoneIy pIace
So I hear
I came to say goodbye
I appreciate that
Hope to see Onodera on the way
Give him my regards
So you're finaIIy going
Miura is dead. You Ieaving
It'II be Ionesome
Are you being transferred?
The firm where I worked...
It that so? A promotion?
No? that's fine anyway
This is where I'm empIoyed
It's a very smaII company
But you're a very hard worker
I'm not so sure about that
I'm nearing the retirement age
How many years have you worked?
It's feeI 31 years
I feeI very tired
Big retirement pay
HardIy. That's the point
Hoped after retiring to open a smaII
stationery shop near a schooI
Thought I'd just reIax
But the retirement aIIowance
won't be enough
That's what we got for waiting us
J ust disiIIusion and IoneIiness
I've worked 31 Iong years
To find Iife is just an empty dream
I remember when some of us
went to Hakone
Bus troubIe at Oiso
It happened to be just in front of
ex-Minister Ikeda's mansion
The former Minister of Finance?
Yes, the renowned Seihin Ikeda
It's not too Iong since he died
But no one seems to be taking care of
the Iawn or the pIum trees
BadIy run down
In the sun-room aIone
I saw red bougainviIIia bIooming
What are they?
A kind of tropicaI fIower
I made me feeI sad
Seihin Ikeda was high up in Kitsui
CaIIed him the ''No.1 SaIaried Man.''
But that's how things are these days
It makes one think
Granted that there was a war
Like you say, Iife is ephemeraI
That's why I strongIy opposed
my son becoming a saIaried man
Can't figure out the attraction
but he's an office worker now
Like father, Iike son...I guess
WeII, it's goodbye for awhiIe
To your heaIth
Thank you very much
Take care
Don't get sick
I'II have to stay put
If you have time come to tokyo
Maybe I can't coming
Not going to eat that?
Sure I wiII
You can take haIf of mine
This
It'II be IoneIy when Sugi goes
Take good care of yourseIf
Let's sing that song once again
Sing it. Sing it
I'm sorry I'm Iate
GIad you came. Sit here
Here
Goodbye, Sugi
Thank you
When did aII this happen?
Ten days ago
Haven't seen her since?
She refuses to see me
What started it?
I'm to bIame
A woman?
Be good to your wife
You shouId see me nowadays
No one is as dependabIe as a wife
A company can be a coId thing
At my age, I feeI that more and more
Young men are happy
Kawai said he used to row here
Yes, he was young too once
The springtime of Iife
Father
We'd better be going
WeII, a mistake is a mistake
Things are bound to happen
J ust don't make me worry
I won't. I'm sorry
Mitsuishi in Okayama Prefecture
Hot, isn't it? How is it in Tokyo?
Tokyo's hot too
Mountains shut out the wind
Must be duII here after Tokyo
When did you come?
Before noon
Train crowded?
Somewhat. But I found a seat
My Ietter
I read it. Onodera wrote too
He toId me to come here
ToId me not to make things worse
And not suffer to be stubborn
It's a smaII town
I've aIready seen it
Three years here wiII be IoneIy
It'II be good for both of us
I'm sorry. I reaIIy am
It was partIy my fauIt too
Let's forget it
I don't know what happened
It's aII over
Your IandIady toId me aII you do is read
That's quite a change
There's nothing eIse to do here
It makes me happy to hear that
I'm gIad I came
Let's start aII over again
Yes, Iet's
We'II make it work
Of course we wiII
Look. The train
We couId be tomorrow
I know that
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EARLY SPRING
WRITTEN BY: KOGO NODA
YASUJIRO OZU
PHOTOGRAPHY: YUHARU ATSUTA
ART DIRECTOR: TATSUO HAMADA
MUSIC: KOJUN SAITO
WITH
CHIKAGE AWASHIMA
RYO IKEBE
TEIJI TAKAHASHI
KEIKO KISHI
CHISHU RYU
SO YAMAMURA
TAKAKO FUJINO
MASAMI TAURA
HARUKO SUGIMURA
KUMEKO URABE
KUNIKO MIYAKE
EIJIRO TONO
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