“It is Zen, the rapture of the present lived moment.” Michel Ciment

A widower whose grown daughter keeps house for him is persuaded by his friends to find a husband for her. Described by Geoff Andrew as “utterly exquisite”, this is perhaps the most personal of Ozu’s films. Both poignant and slyly comic, it touches on his usual themes of family, mortality, old age and loneliness through a simple domestic story.

“Yasujiro Ozu’s last film, now rereleased, is superbly composed family drama about a father and daughter both intent on sacrificing their own happiness for each other” The Guardian

Further reading

1. British Film Institute
2. Roger Ebert
3. The Guardian
4. The New Yorker
5. An Autumn Afternoon: Ozu’s Diaries
   by Donald Richie
6. An Autumn Afternoon: A Fond Farewell by Geoff Andrew
7. Front Row Reviews
8. Senses of Cinema on Ozu
9. Rotten Tomatoes

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