Early Summer (1951)
Setsuko Hara: Noriko Mamiya
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Quotes
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Aya Tamura : Husbands are all like that. That's why we don't marry.
Noriko Mamiya : That's right, isn't it?
Takako : You don't know anything about married life.
Aya Tamura : Married life?
Takako : Only married people understand.
Aya Tamura : Once you're married, it's too late to understand.
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Noriko Mamiya : Wouldn't your husband live here with you?
Aya Tamura : Out of the question. No real man would live with his wife's family.
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Shukichi Mamiya : We're parting ways, but we'll be together again. I wish we could live together forever, but that's impossible.
Koichi Mamiya : Father and Mother, please come visit us now and then from Yamato.
Noriko Mamiya : I'm sorry. I've broken up the family.
Shukichi Mamiya : It's not your fault. It was inevitable.
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Noriko Mamiya : You have a habit of offering something and then taking it back.
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Koichi Mamiya : It's deplorable, what's happened since the war. Women have become so forward, taking advantage of etiquette.
Noriko Mamiya : That's not true. We've just taken our natural place. Men were too forward up to now.
Fumiko Mamiya : Hear, hear!
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Fumiko Mamiya : You drink quite a bit, Noriko.
Noriko Mamiya : I like beer.
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Fumiko Mamiya : When was the last time Uncle visited?
Noriko Mamiya : A year after the war ended. The station was so crowded.
Fumiko Mamiya : I was still wearing those pants we wore during the war.
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Sotaro Satake : I'm glad you came. I wanted to talk to you.
Noriko Mamiya : Yes?
Sotaro Satake : Why don't you get married? It's about time.
[Noriko giggles]
Sotaro Satake : I have a prospect. A classmate from the university, a little older than me. Lived in Calcutta for a long time. His name's Manabe. A good man. He's never been married. Not sure if he's still a virgin.
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Old Uncle : How old are you now, Noriko?
Noriko Mamiya : [giggles] Twenty-eight.
Old Uncle : Huh?
Shukichi Mamiya : She's 28 now.
Old Uncle : Is that right?
Shukichi Mamiya : About time to marry.
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Aya Tamura : I thought you were the type who could never leave Tokyo.
Noriko Mamiya : Why?
Aya Tamura : I imagined you'd live Western-style, with a flower garden, listening to Chopin. In your tiled kitchen, you'd have a refrigerator filled with Coca-Cola. I thought you'd be a housewife in a house like that. When I'd visit, you'd meet me on a covered porch, wearing a white sweater, with a terrier in tow, and you'd greet me over a picket fence, "Hellow, how are you?"