Nobody reworked their own films better than Yasujiro Ozu, who reworks his melancholy black and white 1949 classic “Late Spring” to color, and to a younger generation, with this heartfelt comedy-drama about a group of busy old men who take the task upon themselves to marry off a dead friend’s widow and daughter, played so wonderfully by Setsuko Hara (the daughter of the original, now the mother) and Yoko Tsukasa. Following “Floating Weeds”, which is arguably his best “remake”, this modern story of parents, children, and marriage wouldn’t be Ozu’s last foray into such weighty material, his last film “An Autumn Afternoon” two years later would retread virtually the same plot, but with an echo of sadness from a man who probably knew his time was coming to an end.