Higanbana
Directed by:
Yasujirô OzuCinematography:
Yûharu AtsutaComposer:
Takanobu SaitôCast:
Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiko Kuga, Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Naniwa, Teiji Takahashi, 渡辺文雄, 山本富士子, Mutsuko Sakura, 有馬稲子, Fujio Suga (more)VOD (1)
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Yasujiro Ozu's first colour film, Equinox Flower is a deft comedy that takes an ironic look at the decline of paternal authority. Shin Saburi plays Wataru Hirayama, an old-fashioned father whose outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter tells him she wants a love-match. Outwitted and outflanked by his wily female relatives Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat. The director's playful use of colour, poetry and arch humour combine to make this tale of old versus new at once deeply moving and razor-sharp. (British Film Institute (BFI))
(more)Cast
Shin Saburi
Japan
Best movies:
Late Autumn (1960)
Equinox Flower (1958)
The Castle of Sand (1974)
Kinuyo Tanaka
Japan
Best movies:
Red Beard (1965)
Equinox Flower (1958)
Ballad of Narayama (1958)
Yoshiko Kuga
Japan
Best movies:
Equinox Flower (1958)
Good Morning (1959)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Keiji Sada
Japan
Best movies:
Immortal Love (1961)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
Miyuki Kuwano
Japan
Best movies:
Red Beard (1965)
Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)
Late Autumn (1960)
Chishû Ryû
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
The Human Bullet (1968)
Chieko Naniwa
Japan
Best movies:
Equinox Flower (1958)
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Teiji Takahashi
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Early Spring (1956)
Equinox Flower (1958)
渡辺文雄
Japan
Best movies:
Late Autumn (1960)
Equinox Flower (1958)
Silence Has No Wings (1966)
山本富士子
Japan
Best movies:
Equinox Flower (1958)
An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Mutsuko Sakura
Japan
Best movies:
Late Autumn (1960)
Equinox Flower (1958)
Tokyo Story (1953)
有馬稲子
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Fujio Suga
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Revenge (1963)
Zatoichi's Cane-sword (1967)
Ryûji Kita
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Zatoichi's Cane-sword (1967)
Toyo Takahashi
Japan
Best movies:
Early Summer (1951)
Late Autumn (1960)
Equinox Flower (1958)
Ureo Egawa
Japan
Best movies:
Equinox Flower (1958)
Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933)
Escapade in Japan (1957)