Late Spring
"Late Spring" has been referred to as the director's "most perfect" work , as "the definitive film of Ozu's master filmmaking approach and language" and has been called "one of the most perfect , most complete , and most successful studies of character ever achieved in Japanese cinema . " In the 2012 version of "Sight & Sound" decennial poll of "The Greatest Films of All Time" , published by the British Film Institute ( BFI ) , "Late Spring" appears as the second highest-ranking Japanese-language film on the list at number 15 , behind Ozu's own "Tokyo Story" at number 3 . 
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