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The Approach of Autumn (秋立ちぬ, Aki tachinu), also titled Autumn Has Already Started, is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse.




Plot


After the death of his father, Hideo and his mother Shigeko leave Ueda, Nagano, for Tokyo, where she starts a job at a ryokan, while Hideo moves in with his uncle's family. He befriends the slightly younger Junko, the daughter of Shigeko's employer Naoyo, herself the mistress of a married businessman who finances the ryokan. The two children start making repeated trips around the city together, which finally lead them to the ocean that Hideo only knows from pictures. Hideo is eventually left alone when his mother runs off with a guest and Junko moves away after her father sold her mother's business.




Cast


Kenzaburō Ōsawa as Hideo
Nobuko Otowa as Shigeko, Hideo's mother
Kamatari Fujiwara as Hideo's uncle
Natsuko Kahara as Hideo's aunt
Yosuke Natsuki as Shotaro
Futaba Ichiki as Junko (credited as Futaba Hitotsugi)
Murasaki Fujima as Naoyo, Junko's mother
Daisuke Katō as Tomioka
Hisako Hara as Harue
Seizaburō Kawazu as Kasao
Kin Sugai as ryokan maid




Reception


In his 2008 Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors, film historian Alexander Jacoby called The Approach of Autumn a "precise, clear‒eyed story of a child's emotional life, with something of the bittersweet quality of [Hiroshi] Shimizu".




Legacy


The Approach of Autumn was screened at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2006.




References






External links


The Approach of Autumn at IMDb
Uhlich, Keith (28 October 2005). "Review: The Approach of Autumn". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
Thrift, Matthew (20 August 2015). "Mikio Naruse: 10 essential films". British Film Institute. Retrieved 19 July 2023.

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