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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

7.8

The End of Summer

The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu’s most deftly modulated blendings of comedy and tragedy.

NR

7.8

1961 Drama 103 min Play

7.9

Late Autumn

A mother gets help from her late husband's three friends in order to get her daughter married to a well-settled man.

NR

7.9

1960 Drama 128 min Play

7.5

Floating Weeds

A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame Oyoshi and their son Kiyoshi, even though Kiyoshi believes Komajuro is his uncle. The leading actress Sumiko is jealous and so, in order to humiliate the master, persuades the younger actress Kayo to seduce Kiyoshi.

NR

7.5

1959 Drama 115 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

7.7

Equinox Flower

Later in his career, Ozu started becoming increasingly sympathetic with the younger generation, a shift that was cemented in Equinox Flower, his gorgeously detailed first color film, about an old-fashioned father and his newfangled daughter.

NR

7.7

1958 Comedy 118 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

Early Spring

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

NR

8

1956 Drama 144 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

7.5

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis of sorts.

NR

7.5

1952 Drama 115 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

7.2

The Munekata Sisters

Setsuko is unhappily 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 propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.

NR

7.2

1950 Drama 112 min Play