Screenplay: Yasujirō Ozu

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 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 Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Ganjiro Nakamura · Setsuko Hara · Yôko Tsukasa · Michiyo Aratama

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 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 Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Chishu Ryu · Hisako Yamane · Yôko Sugi · Mie Kitahara

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 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...