An Autumn Afternoon
| An Autumn Afternoon | |
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| Directed by | Yasujirō Ozu |
| Written by | Kogo Noda Yasujirō Ozu |
| Produced by | Shizuo Yamanouchi |
| Starring | Shima Iwashita Chishū Ryū Keiji Sada Mariko Okada Teruo Yoshida Noriko Maki Shinichiro Mikami Eijiro Tono |
| Cinematography | Yûharu Atsuta |
| Edited by | Yoshiyasu Hamamura |
| Music by | Takanobu Saitô (as Kojun Saito) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | 125,090 tickets (France) |
An Autumn Afternoon (Japanese: 秋刀魚の味, Hepburn: Sanma no Aji; "The Taste of Sanma") is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu for Shochiku Films. It stars Ozu regular Chishū Ryū as the patriarch of the Hirayama family who eventually realises that he has a duty to arrange a marriage for his daughter Michiko (Shima Iwashita). It was Ozu's last film; he died the following year on the day he turned 60.
Today, An Autumn Afternoon is considered by many to be one of Ozu's finest works.