Late Spring

*The black and white composition is broken up into six separate frames. Interestingly, the largest frame has least amount of visual information. It is mainly an empty sky with a cloud in the lower right hand corner of the frame. In this frame are words that indicate the title of the film and name of the director.

* Of the four frames on the bottom, the frame on the left and the frame on the right seem to be contrasting each other in content. The one of the left shows a woman dressed in traditional Japanese clothing. She is foregrounded, in close-up, so we are able to register the expression on her face.

* This frame is contrasted to the frame on the right that depicts a more modern day situation, indicated by the bicycle which is foregrounded in this frame. In this frame the human figures, of which there are two, are shown in the background, in a long shot. The figures have their backs to the camera. We cannot read expressions on their faces.

* There is repetition in the size of the three frames in the center of the composition. It appears that three frames are the only ones in the composition that are the same size. The three frames stacked on top of each other gives off the appearance of a roll of film.

* As far as groupings, it is interesting to see the couple grouped together in frame on the bottom right, as opposed to the solitary figures in frame on the left and the middle small frame.

My take: I believe this poster is trying to reflect the narrative of the film. The woman is caught between a traditional role, in which is somewhat alone, and a more modern world, in which she might find companionship. It is her father, in the small frame, who stands between these two different paths in her life.