Late Spring / Late Autumn

Above, Setsuko Hara plays the daughter who marries and leaves her widowed father (Chishu Ryu) alone at the end of Ozu's Late Spring (1949).

11 years later, in Late Autumn (1960), Hara plays the widowed mother who decides not to remarry and is left alone after her daughter's marriage. The angle of Hara's head in the two images is almost identical, but the change of expression speaks volumes about the passage of time.