Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.

Repast

1951

Japanese

7.6

♡ 8

83%

based on novel or book

Mikio Naruse Director

Ranko Hanai as Koyoshi Dohya

Setsuko Hara as Michiyo Okamoto

Yôko Sugi as Mitsuko Murata, Michiyo's sister-in-law

Keiju Kobayashi as Shinzo Murata, Michiyo's brother

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

The Blue Mountains: Part II

1949

Japanese

6.4

♡ 2

Drama

Tadashi Imai Director

Kamatari Fujiwara as

Masao Mishima as

Kokuten Kôdô as

Setsuko Hara as Yukiko Shimazaki

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

Sudden Rain

1956

Japanese

7.2

♡ 3

86%

Mikio Naruse Director

Setsuko Hara as Fumiko

Akemi Negishi as Hinako

Haruko Tôgô as Rin Ameyama

Fuyuki Murakami as Taneda

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

The Blue Mountains: Part I

1949

Japanese

6.7

♡ 2

Drama

Romance

Tadashi Imai Director

Kamatari Fujiwara as

Masao Mishima as

Ichirô Ryûzaki as Tamao Numata

Setsuko Hara as Yukiko Shimazaki

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo.

Chushingura

1962

Japanese

7.5

♡ 6

Hiroshi Inagaki Director

Hiroshi Tachikawa as Aminori Uesugi

Toshirô Mifune as Genba Tawaraboshi

Akira Takarada as Gunbei Takada

Setsuko Hara as Riku

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

Tokyo Twilight

1957

Japanese

8.0

♡ 32

100%

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Fujio Suga as

Masami Taura as Kenji Kimura

Isuzu Yamada as Kisako Aijima

Setsuko Hara as Takako Numata

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

The End of Summer

1961

Japanese

7.7

♡ 11

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Setsuko Hara as Akiko

Hisaya Morishige as Isomura Eiichirou

Akira Takarada as Teramoto Tadashi

Reiko Dan as Yuriko, her daughter

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

The Three Treasures

1959

Japanese

6.4

♡ 6

Hiroshi Inagaki Director

Setsuko Hara as Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess

Nobuko Otowa as Goddess of Anenouzume

Eijirô Tôno as Ootomo

Toshirô Mifune as Prince Yamato Takeru

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 stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.

No Regrets for Our Youth

1946

Japanese

7.1

♡ 14

100%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Akitake Kôno as Itokawa

Eiko Miyoshi as Madame Yagihara, the prodessor's wife

Kokuten Kôdô as Mr. Noge, Ryukichi's father

Setsuko Hara as Yukie Yagihara

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own path in pre- and post-WWII Japan.

Tokyo Story

1953

Japanese

8.1

♡ 64

100%

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Keijirô Morozumi as Junsa

Setsuko Hara as Noriko Hirayama

Toyo Takahashi as Rinka no saikun

Eijirô Tôno as Sanpei Numata

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.

Late Autumn

1960

Japanese

7.9

♡ 21

100%

87%

Action

based on novel or book

bungled plot

Comedy

co-worker relationship

co-workers relationship

Drama

literature

widow and widower

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Fujio Suga as

Setsuko Hara as Akiko Miwa

Miyuki Kuwano as Michiko

Yoshie Minami as Sakae Kuwata

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Early Summer

1951

Japanese

8.0

♡ 23

100%

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Toyo Takahashi as Nobu Tamura

Setsuko Hara as Noriko Mamiya

Ichirô Sugai as Shukichi Mamiya

Kuniko Igawa as Takako

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

The Idiot

1951

Japanese

7.1

♡ 11

60%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Toshirô Mifune as Denkichi Akama

Masayuki Mori as Kinji Kameda

Setsuko Hara as Taeko Nasu

Eijirô Yanagi as Tohata

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.

Late Spring

1949

Japanese

8.2

♡ 33

100%

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Masao Mishima as Jo Onodera

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Kiku

Setsuko Hara as Noriko Somiya

Toyo Takahashi as Shige

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 marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

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Sound of the Mountain

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Repast

The Blue Mountains: Part II

Sudden Rain

The Blue Mountains: Part I

Chushingura

Tokyo Twilight

The End of Summer

The Three Treasures

No Regrets for Our Youth

Tokyo Story

Late Autumn

Early Summer

The Idiot

Late Spring