Early Summer (1951)
麦秋
ThumbScore
👍 90%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 97%
(RT: 100%, MC: 94) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Setsuko Hara as Noriko Mamiya
Chikage Awashima as Aya Tamura
Ichirō Sugai as Shukichi Mamiya
Chieko Higashiyama as Shige Mamiya
Kuniko Igawa as Takako
Is Early Summer good?
Yes. 90% audience score, estimated from 218 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 97%.
Overview
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction. Wikipedia ↗
