Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu, 1960)

8/10
Late Autumn is something of a re-working of Late Spring - despite society and family pressures, a young, eligible woman shows little interest in marriage, to the confusion of all around her. In Late Spring the young woman didn't want to abandon her father. In Late Autumn, it's the mother. Three friends of the mother's deceased husband take a keen interest in fixing her up, and it's quite funny to see them obsess over this "case" and the methods and ideas they come up with. If Japanese society of the time was anything the way Ozu depicts it, it's staggering how much of a focus marriage used to be back then.