Which 1949 Yasujiro Ozu film follows Noriko and her widowed father?

The 1949 Yasujiro Ozu film that follows Noriko and her widowed father is Late Spring.

Setsuko Hara plays Noriko Somiya, a 27-year-old unmarried woman living contentedly with her father, Shukichi, played by Chishu Ryu. Relatives pressure Noriko to marry, while her father pretends that he may remarry a widow, hoping to persuade his daughter to build a life of her own.

Directed by Ozu and co-written with Kogo Noda, the film was adapted from Kazuo Hirotsu’s novel Father and Daughter. Its restrained story turns ordinary domestic decisions into a moving examination of duty, affection, marriage and the painful transition from family dependence to adulthood.

Late Spring is often called the first film in Ozu’s “Noriko trilogy.” Early Summer and Tokyo Story also feature Hara as characters named Noriko, but those women are distinct and unrelated. That shared name is a frequent source of confusion; the father-daughter story specifically belongs to Late Spring.