Screenplay: Tadao Ikeda

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 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.

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Jun Arai · Choko Iida · Teruko Kojima · Sumiko Kurishima

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Takeshi Sakamoto · Choko Iida · Koji Mitsui · Rieko Yagumo

Plot An aging, traveling actor who is the manager of a kabuki troupe returns to a remote village where he secretly meets his former lover and her 19 year old illegitimate...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Takeshi Sakamoto · Yoshiko Okada · Choko Iida · Tomio Aoki

Plot It tells the story of an unemployed and homeless single father (Takeshi Sakamoto) with two sons (the elder of the two being the wonderful Tomio Aoki) looking for work in...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

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

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Yoshiko Okada · Ureo Egawa · Kinuyo Tanaka · Shinyo Nara

Plot Ryoichi stays with his sister, Chikako who is supporting his education. He is looking forward to marriage with Harue when he found out about his sister’s night work. Woman of...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Toshiko Iizuka · Shin Tokudaiji · Choko Iida · Takeshi Sakamoto

Plot Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom she’s sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a wastrel life....

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Takeshi Sakamoto · Nobuko Fushimi · Den Obinata · Choko Iida

Plot After the death of his wife, a man struggles to raise his son in nearly overwhelming poverty. When the father meets a beautiful young woman, the son becomes jealous of...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Joji Oka · Sumiko Mizukubo · Koji Mitsui

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Satoko Date · Hiroko Kawasaki · Takeshi Sakamoto · Utako Suzuki

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Yukichi Iwata · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Den Obinata · Seiichi Kato

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Chishu Ryu · Ken Mitsuda · Kazumasa Hoshino · Kinuyo Tanaka

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Tatsuo Saito · Tomio Aoki · Takeshi Sakamoto

Direction Minoru Shibuya

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Shûji Sano · Michiyo Kogure · Reikichi Kawamura

Plot Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes...

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Sanae Takasugi · Tokuji Kobayashi · Tomio Aoki · Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Plot Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband takes place in a family-run judo school.

Direction Yasujirô Shimazu

Cast Hideo Fujino · Hideko Higashi · Reikichi Kawamura · Ryotaro Mizushima

Plot A film about a businessman’s daughter who falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Direction Minoru Shibuya

Cast Tatsuo Saito · Fumiko Okamura · Takeshi Sakamoto · Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Plot Two men who feel oppressed by their wives, yet still manage to wind their way through brothels, end up at odds with each other after a mishap at the local...

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Shozaburo Abe · Mariko Aoyama · Hideo Fujino · Masao Hayama

Plot Okinu, daughter of the owner of a hosiery business, is in love with Yukidon the young manager of the shop. However, whenever the two meet, they fight. When the landlord...