Cast: Chishu Ryu

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yûzô Kayama · Yoshio Tsuchiya · Kyôko Kagawa

Plot In the Nineteenth Century, in Japan, the arrogant and proud just-graduated Dr. Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) is forced to work in the Koshikawa Clinic, a non-profit health facility ruled by...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Yusuke Kawazu · Tamao Nakamura

Plot The protagonist is the pacifistic Kaji. Strong-armed into the Japanese military during World War II, Kaji has reluctantly learned to kill on the battlefields. Upon his country's surrender, Kaji and...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Chieko Higashiyama · Setsuko Hara · Sô Yamamura

Plot An elderly couple visit their children in Tokyo, only to be passed around from family to family.

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Ineko Arima · Kamatari Fujiwara · Setsuko Hara · Nobuo Nakamura

Plot Two sisters live with their father. The younger sister is embroiled in an affair and becomes pregnant. The elder sister has run away from her husband and returned with her...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Setsuko Hara · Chishu Ryu · Hohi Aoki · Masao Mishima

Plot A widower who lives with his daughter wants her to get married, but she doesn't want to leave him alone. He will pretend that he is about to marry in...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Setsuko Hara · Chishu Ryu · Chikage Awashima · Kuniko Miyake

Plot In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko, their married son, his devoted wife, and two rascally sons. Their only discontent is Noriko's...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Tatsuo Saito · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Hideo Sugawara · Takeshi Sakamoto

Plot In the 30s, a low middle-class family composed of the father (Tatsuo Saito), the mother (Mitsuko Yoshikawa) and two little sons (Hideo Sugawara and Tomio Aoki) has just moved to...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Ganjiro Nakamura · Haruko Sugimura · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Machiko Kyô

Plot Komajuro (Ganjiro Nakamura) leads a traveling acting troupe that performs cut-rate kabuki in the provinces. His mistress, Sumiko, is loyal to him, as are the other veteran actors. The troupe...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Shima Iwashita · Shinichiro Mikami · Keiji Sada

Plot Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year old daughter. He gradually comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Kuniko Miyake · Yoshiko Kuga · Koji Shidara

Plot Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Hideko Takamine · Chishu Ryu · Tatsuo Saito · Sanae Takasugi

Plot Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Shin Saburi · Kinuyo Tanaka · Ineko Arima · Yoshiko Kuga

Plot A business man is often approached by friends for advice and help regarding marriage as well as family and romantic relationships. He is always very calmly and objectively able to...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takeshi Katô · Masayuki Mori · Takashi Shimura

Plot A young executive hunts down his father’s killer in director Akira Kurosawa’s scathing The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chikage Awashima · Ryo Ikebe · Teiji Takahashi · Keiko Kishi

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Setsuko Hara · Yôko Tsukasa · Shin Saburi · Nobuo Nakamura

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Choko Iida · Hohi Aoki · Eitarô Ozawa · Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Plot In post-war Japan, a man brings a lost boy to his tenement. No one wants to take the child for even one night; finally, a sour widow, Tané, does. The...

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Ineko Arima · Ganjiro Nakamura · Mieko Takamine · Tatsuya Nakadai

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Noriko Arita · Shinji Tanaka · Takahiro Tamura · Haruko Sugimura

Plot An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies (or Wild Chrysanthemums, as they are described in the title, or starworts, as they are referred to...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Choko Iida · Shinichi Himori · Masao Hayama · Yoshiko Tsubouchi

Plot In 1923, in the province of Shinshu, the widow and simple worker of a silk factory Tsune Nonomiya (O-Tsune) decides to send her only son to Tokyo for having a...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Shûji Sano · Shin Saburi · Takeshi Sakamoto

Plot Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.