Movie Review - Late Spring

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Late Spring is a Japanese drama film premiered in 1949 based on a novel called "Father and Daughter" and it is also a type of Japanese film called "shomingeki" which deals with the middle and the working class in modern times in Japanese era. This major prototype film by the famous director Yosujiro Ozu is a film director and a screenwriter known for the technical style and innovation of his film for the narrative content. Rapid growth in his reputation in the film industry can be distinguished as he was recognized as World's Most Influential Director back in the days - the invention of camera technique "tatami shot" by his where the camera placed on the low height eye level of a person kneeling on a tatami mat to get a perfect shot. His career marked as an impact in the film industry where his field of the film more on marriage, family, relationship - Late Spring, Tokyo Story, Floating Weeds are the movies directed by Yasujiro Ozu and widely acclaimed of generations in the film industry. 

This movie is about an unmarried girl a daughter to Professor Shukichi Somiya (widower) named Noriko who always takes care of the household and her father. Noriko thinks that marriage is something that can be waited for a long time and she thinks that marriage life is distasteful. As time goes by, Noriko seems to get more attention from her aunty Masa (her father's sister) which Masa wanted her to get to know and get married to Hattori but unfortunately, the decision laughed by Noriko because Hattori is engaged with another woman. Then, that intention did not just stop there... Masa pressured Noriko to marry a guy from Tokyo named Satawa - she has no intention to do so but Masa wanted Satawa to marry another girl if Noriko does not want to take that as a challenge - love can be developed that easily - Noriko gets jealous by this one incident and the feelings developed quickly, in the end, Satawa and Noriko were married. 

This oh-so-romantic or love-hate-relationship kind of movie was awarded the prestigious Kinema Jumpo critics' award as the best Japanese production release, Director's Most Perfect Work and Highest Ranking Japanese Language film at number 15 where Tokyo Story is at number 3 during that time. Although, some awards and recognitions about this film can be caught sight of achievement there were some shots of my personal favorites during this movie.

 This is an establishing shot in the film which can create depth in viewing the view of the shot in that film. The aesthetic frame shot in this movie makes it more beautiful in the scenery and showing the point of the shot. The angle of the camera where it took place shot straight to the scenery makes it more an eye-catching scene.

This shot called Rule of Third where you can see the objects (the people standing) at this left side and the straight line of three sectors was divided into that shot to make it more stable in the frame. To get a perfect shot in this technique the position of the object must be symmetrical with the line from the up, middle, and the lower part to make it better in every shots possible.