wpqx "I actually like Early Summer more than Tokyo Story and Late Spring, but who knows different tastes I guess." 

For me the fact that minor characters overshadowed the major players plus the effort of trying to keep up with all the other characters who just seemed to pop in and out with no understanding of why? detracted from the overall impact. 

I love the intimacy of Late Spring and the cohesion of Tokyo Story but the fact that I've seen both of the others a few times whereas I've only seen Early Summer once may affect my overall judgement. 

The more opinions on these films the better especially as an insight for those who haven't seen them.
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arsaib4 "Geez, Trev. I didn't realize that you were ready to rock n' roll here. Some fine reviews from you and wpqx. I'll certainly contribute when I visit these films again. I guess it's okay if one film has a couple of reviews."

Thanks arsaib4, wpqx set a high benchmark for the thread and I feel that whereas with a new(ish) film brief comments often suffice just to give people a taster, with these older films we can expand on that. I'd like to see a few comments for each film, they can easily be linked together on the index page, just don't expect me to write to the high standard I have come to expect from you, wpqx and others. 

Cheers Trev.