Early Spring (1956) - (Movie Clip) Where's The Wife?

Early Spring (1956) -- (Movie Clip) The Garbage Man Never Comes

Opening with static shots of grim scenes of modern industrial Japan, we meet Masako (Chikage Awashima) and husband Shoji (Ryo Ikebe), then briefly their neighbors the Aokis (Teiji Takahashi, Takako Fujino), before the work day begins, in Yasujiro Ozu's Early Spring, 1956.

Early Spring (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Why Is He So Jealous?

Still giddy after her generally above-board visit over the weekend with married Shoji (Ryo Ikebe), office flirt Chiyo (Keiko Kishi) makes a colleague (Chieko Nakakita) wonder, then meets him for a somewhat secret lunch, in Yasujiro Ozu's Early Spring, 1956.

Early Spring (1956) -- (Movie Clip) No Need To Worry

Masako (Chikage Awashima) is at home being reassured by her mother (Kumeko Hurabe) that she need not worry about her husband Shoji (Ryo Ikebe) staying out all night, though we know he's just consummated an extra-marital affair, in Yasujiro Ozu's Early Spring, 1956.

Early Spring (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Everyone's Dissatisfied

Our hero, Tokyo office worker Shoji (Ryo Ikebe) and his quasi-mentor Onodera (Chishu Ryu), in town though he's long been farmed out to the boondocks, visit ex-colleague Kawai (So Yamamura), who opened his own coffee shop, in Yasujiro Ozu's Early Spring, 1956.