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An Autumn Afternoon

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

NR

7.9

1962 Drama 113 min Play

7.7

Good Morning

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where ...

NR

7.7

1959 Comedy 94 min Play

7.5

Tokyo Twilight

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

NR

7.5

1957 Drama 141 min Play

8.3

Tokyo Story

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

NR

8.3

1953 Drama 134 min Play

6.3

Youth of the Son

The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.

NR

6.3

1952 Comedy 45 min Play

6.6

Boyhood

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

NR

6.6

1951 Drama 110 min Play

6.7

Carmen Comes Home

A girl who'd left her hometown for the exciting adventure of the big city returns home years later for a visit, soon somehow causing scandal.

NR

6.7

1951 Comedy 86 min Play

7.9

Early Summer

Noriko lives in postwar Tokyo with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her friends, her more traditionally minded family worries about the fact that she's still single at the advanced age of 28. When 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes marriage, Noriko's family press her into accepting. But when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.

NR

7.9

1951 Drama 135 min Play