The Approach of Autumn

The Approach of Autumn (秋立ちぬ, Aki tachinu), also titled Autumn Has Already Started, is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse.[1][2][3]

The Approach of Autumn
Directed byMikio Naruse
Written byRyōzō Kasahara
Produced byMikio Naruse
Starring
CinematographyJun Yasumoto
Edited byEiji Ooi
Music byIchirō Saitō
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 1 October 1960 (1960-10-01) (Japan)[1][2]
Running time
79 minutes[1][2]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Plot

After the death of his father, Hideo and his mother Shigeko leave Ueda, Nagano, for Tokyo, where she starts a job at a ryokan, while Hideo moves in with his uncle's family. He befriends the slightly younger Junko, the daughter of Shigeko's employer Naoyo, herself the mistress of a married businessman who finances the ryokan. The two children start making repeated trips around the city together, which finally lead them to the ocean that Hideo only knows from pictures. Hideo is eventually left alone when his mother runs off with a guest and Junko moves away after her father sold her mother's business.

Cast

Reception

In his 2008 Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors, film historian Alexander Jacoby called The Approach of Autumn a "precise, clear‒eyed story of a child's emotional life, with something of the bittersweet quality of [Hiroshi] Shimizu".[4]

Legacy

The Approach of Autumn was screened at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2006.[5]

References
  1. "秋立ちぬ (The Approach of Autumn)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  2. "秋立ちぬ (The Approach of Autumn)" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  3. "没後50年 成瀬巳喜男の世界映画祭 (The World of Mikio Naruse 50 Years After His Death) Mikio Naruse Film Festival" (in Japanese). Shogakukan 神保町シアター (Jinbōchō Theater). Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  4. Jacoby, Alexander (2008). Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.
  5. "The Approach of Autumn". BAMPFA. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
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