Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

This film features a large extended family (and associates) even more extensive than the one portrayed by Ozu in “End of Summer”. The central character is Setsuko Hara — a…

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor’s vassal, prefers Ouso’s…

Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings during a purge of anti-militarism in pre-war Kyoto….

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…

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

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

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

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,…