The End of Summer

Yasujiro Ozu made only three films for studios other than Shochiku, and The End of the Summer was the last of those, this one made with Toho, home studio to Kurosawa and Honda. It was something of a big deal within Toho because studio systems worked by keeping actors within the studio walls as much as possible. Setsuko Hara, though, was a Toho contract player, despite Ozu’s affection for using her at Shochiku, meaning that for Late Autumn, Shochiku had to borrow her from Toho with the exchan...