Cinematography: Yuuharu Atsuta

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 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 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 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 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.

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Masao Hayama · Shinichi Himori · Reikichi Kawamura · Seiji Nishimura

Plot A follow-up to Children in the Wind, Four Seasons of Children is also based on a Tsubota Joji novel. The film is divided into two chapters, following the young protagonists'...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Shûji Sano · Chieko Murata · Chishu Ryu

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Shin Saburi · Michiyo Kogure · Koji Tsuruta · Chikage Awashima

Plot Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high-society, is bored by her dull husband, a quiet and reliable company executive raised in the country (Shin Saburi) After a crisis, she understands...

Direction Kazuo Inoue

Cast Ineko Arima · Chikage Awashima · Shôhei Imamura · Tatsuya Jô

Plot A documentary by Kazuo Inoue about the life and career of Yasujiro Ozu, which involved his assistant Shohei Imamura (director of The Pornographers and The Eel), critics Donald Richie and...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Fumio Watanabe · Ineko Arima · Tatsuya Nakadai · Asao Sano

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mieko Takamine · Shinobu Aoki · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Choko Iida

Plot Released in 1940, Nobuko stars renowned actress/singer Takamine Mieko as titular heroine Nobuko, a spirited young teacher working in a conservative school. Based on a novel by Shishi Bunroku, the...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Mieko Takamine · Shin Saburi · Hideo Fujino · Ayako Katsuragi

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Tatsuo Saito · Michiko Kuwano · Shûji Sano · Sumiko Kurishima

Plot An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants,...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Keiji Sada · Minoru Oki · Keiko Kishi · Yûnosuke Itô