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Sanma no aji (Autumn Afternoon, An)
	Réalisateur:	Yasujiro Ozu
	Acteurs:	Chishu Ryu (as Shuhei Hirayama), Shima Iwashita (as Michiko Hirayama), Keiji Sada (as Koichi), Mariko Okada (as Akiko), Teruo Yoshida (as Yutaka Miura), Noriko Maki (as Fusako Taguchi), Shinichirô Mikami (as Kazuo), Nobuo Nakamura (as Shuzo Kawai), Eijirô Tono (as Sakuma, The 'Gourd'), Kuniko Miyake (as Nobuko), Kyôko Kishida (as 'Kaoru' no Madame), Michiyo Kan (as Tamako, gosai), Ryuji Kita (as Shin Horie), Toyoko Takahashi (as 'Wakamatsu' no Okami (as Toyo Takahashi)), Shinobu Asaji (as Youko Sasaki, hisho)
	Pays:	Japan
	Catégorie:	Drama
	Année:	1962

Résumé:	Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year old daughter. He gradually comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, and so he arranges a marriage for her.
Commentaire:	(Contains spoilers) Mr. Hirayama (Chishu Ryu) congratulates his secretary on her wedding and wishes another one the same domestic bliss. But when the subject of his own daughter's marriage is touched - he is in no hurry. She is still a child. One of his friends, Mr. Kawai, sets him right: Michiko is 24. He knows the right suitor, a young doctor, and offers to act as a matchmaker. The night is long (baseball, sake) and one of their buddies, Mr. Horie, brags of his young wife: he does not need "aid" (viagra), he claims; his wife buys just "vitamines". The others crack jokes behind his back. Old fool. I don't want to be like him. Michiko greets her father ("You're drunk"). This beautiful girl is not the subjugated "little woman" but a proficient housekeeper on her way of becoming a shrew. And she has no intention to wait on her little brother Kazuo. She shrugs Mr. Kawai's warning that she may become an old maid off. Hirayama's class comrades nearly exhibit Mr. Sakuma, their old math teacher, as warning of what can become of a man who neglected the duty to marry his daughter. Sakuma's daughter, Tomoko, restrains herself and remains polite when her father's former pupils deliver the staggering old man in his miserable noodle-kitchen. It's only after they left that this faded and careworn woman allows herself to cry... Koichi, Michikos elder brother, is married and his wife Akiko is just as self-assured as her sister in law. When he bosses her around she bosses him back. Koichi touched his father for 50 000 yen - for a washing-machine - and for golf-clubs his wife will not allow him to keep ("golf is a luxury for a little clerk like you"). He is sulking... This evening, Hirayama asks his daughter if she does not want to marry. He feels that he has taken advantage of her. She remains obstinate, claims that she is contented with her life, does not want to "talk about it". Hirayama asks his younger son if he "has somebody". Yes, Kazuo replies, and he suspects that his sister "has somebody" too. Michiko visits Koichi and Akiko. Her father's matchmaking is getting on her nerves, although she is not disinclined to marry: She finds one of Koichi's colleagues, Mr. Miura, sympathetic...With his father's approval Koichi puts out a feeler: "Do you like to marry?" - Too late! Mr. Miura was, in fact, interested, but thought that Michiko was not interested - and now he has another sweetheart. Michiko keeps her countenance when her father and her brother break the news gently to her. She cries only in secret. But there is still hope: Mr. Kawai's candidate, the young doctor...Too late again! The union to another girl is as good as settled...April Fool! Mr. Kawai just couldn't resist this little joke... ...And then the wedding does take place. Michiko is a beautiful bride and Hirayama a proud father who wishes his daughter: "Be happy!". He does not move in with Koichi and Akiko because "The young should be together. The old should not trouble them." He will stay home with his younger son Kazuo. He gets drunk in a bar. People ask him if he comes from a funeral ("something like that" he replies). Kazuo awaits his father: "Don't drink!" "Go to bed!" he orders his old man. Mr. Hirayama sits on a chair and looks at his empty home. Now he is truly alone. Masterpiece - what a hackneyed word, but how else should I describe Ozu's work? Neither did he make use of classic sources (like Kurozawa) nor did he invent the "eastern". His protagonists face just everybody's problems. How to grow up and find happiness without angering your parents, how to grow old and survive it without angering your children...His description of the generation gap is especially strong. How did other directors capture the moment when a parent has just one duty: let go. Different perhaps; better is impossible. Ozu is as good as Wilder when mixing drama with comedy. Hirayama meets an old wartime comrade in a bar. They deplore that the young generation is influenced by american culture. What if Japan has won the war? ("We'd be sitting in New York. The americans would wear japanese hairdos. And they would play the shamisen while chewing gum"). Discussions about aphrodisiacs and contraceptives were probably too "adult" for western audiences of the time, but sometimes dissonant parts amount to a harmonious total. 10/10
Langue:	Japanese
Sous-titres:	English
Durée:	112 Min
Format vidéo:	XviD MPEG-4 Codec
Format audio:	MPEG Layer 3 (MP3)
Nombre de CD:	1