Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu’s charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of childhood as well…

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever…

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry — that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he…

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…

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

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

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

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…

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…

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

After the death of her husband, Mrs Toda and her youngest daughter receive a frosty welcome from the extended family.

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old girl. Graduallyhe comes to understand that she shouldn’t be required to care for him for the remainder of his lifetime, so he…

A lighthearted spin on director Yasujiro Ozu’s recurrent topic of the struggles of inter­generational connections, Good Morning tells the story of two young girls that cease talking in protest following…

The older Shukishi along with also his wife, Tomi, choose the very long trip out of their small beachfront village to see their adult kids in Tokyo. Their older son,…