Wife

1953

Japanese

7.1

♡ 4

67%

Action

based on novel or book

Mikio Naruse Director

Mieko Takamine as Mihoko Nakagawa

Sanae Takasugi as Setsuko Sakurai

Rentarô Mikuni as Tadashi Tanimura

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Taeko Niemura

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.

The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

1941

Japanese

7.2

♡ 10

86%

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Toshiaki Konoe as

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Ayako

Mieko Takamine as Setsuko Toda

Reikichi Kawamura as Suzuki

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.

Late Chrysanthemums

1954

Japanese

7.4

♡ 7

87%

Mikio Naruse Director

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as

Tsuruko Mano as

Sadako Sawamura as Nobu

Chikako Hosokawa as Tamae

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.

The Eternal Breasts

1955

Japanese

7.7

♡ 4

Kinuyo Tanaka Director

Ryôji Hayama as Akira Ôtsuki

Yôko Sugi as Kinuko

Masayuki Mori as Mori

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Mrs. Shirakawa

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of her life, she meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her life.

Love Letter

1953

Japanese

7.1

♡ 2

Kinuyo Tanaka Director

Yumi Takano as

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Michiko's new mother

Masayuki Mori as Reikichi Mayumi

Ranko Hanai as Restaurant owner

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

The Only Son

1936

Japanese

7.7

♡ 7

86%

1930s

Drama

parent child relationship

tokyo, japan

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Mitsuko Yoshikawa as O-Taka

Chishû Ryû as Professor Ookubo

Masao Hayama as Ryosuke Nonomiya,

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Sugiko

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.

The Munekata Sisters

1950

Japanese

7.4

♡ 3

89%

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Hideko Takamine as Mariko Munekata

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Mieko

Reikichi Kawamura as Sangin's customer

Sanae Takasugi as Yoriko Mashita

Setsuko is unhappily married 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 tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.

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.

A Story of Floating Weeds

1934

Japanese

7.6

♡ 9

100%

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Nagamasa Yamada as Maako, an actor

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Otoki

Chishû Ryû as Shouting audience member

Reikô Tani as Tomibo's father

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.

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Wife

The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

Late Chrysanthemums

The Eternal Breasts

Love Letter

The Only Son

The Munekata Sisters

Late Spring

A Story of Floating Weeds