Equinox Flower Higanbana
is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu which is based on a novel by Ton Satomi.
Plot
Wataru Hirayama (Shin Saburi) is a wealthy Tokyo businessman. When an old schoolmate Mikami (Chishū Ryū) approaches him for help concerning his daughter Fumiko (Yoshiko Kuga), who has run off owing to a conflict with her father, he agrees. Finding her in a bar where she now works, he listens to her side of the story. Fumiko complains that her father is stubborn, insisting on arranging her marriage, whereas she has now fallen in love with a musician and is adamant to lead life her own way.
More details
author | Kōgo Noda Ton Satomi Yasujirō Ozu |
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contentLocation | Tokyo |
director | Yasujirō Ozu |
editor | Yoshiyasu Hamamura |
keywords | business trip getting married hiroshima married miyuki kuwano wedding plans young man |
musicBy | Takanobu Saitō |
producer | Shizuo Yamanouchi |
publisher | Shochiku |
theme | japanese |