An Autumn Afternoon [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's Autumn Afternoon is an elegiac exercise in what one critic has labelled the director's sense of "melancholy resignation." Three elderly men discuss the problem of an aging friend's grown, unmarried daughter. The threesome decides to arrange a marriage for the girl, whether she likes it or not. Their machinations are counterpointed by a comic subplot concerning the exhausting union between an old man and a younger, more sexually supercharged, woman. Released in Japan as Samma no aji, Autumn Afternoon was the veteran Ozu's final film; he died one year after its completion.