What Did the Lady Forget?

1937

Japanese

7.0

♡ 11

87%

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Kenji Ôyama as

Mitsuko Yoshikawa as Mitsuko, widow in Denen-chofu

Shûji Sano as Okada

Kimiyo Ôtsuka as Tokyo geisha

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.

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.

An Autumn Afternoon

1962

Japanese

8.0

♡ 10

95%

existential loneliness

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Masao Oda as Dousousei Watanabe

Eijirô Tôno as Sakuma - The 'Gourd'

Shinobu Asaji as Youko Sasaki, hisho

Teruo Yoshida as Yutaka Miura

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.

Floating Weeds

1959

Japanese

7.9

♡ 19

96%

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Hitomi Nozoe as Aiko

Ayako Wakao as Kayo

Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Kiyoshi Homma

Machiko Kyô as Sumiko

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

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.

I Was Born, But...

1932

Japanese

7.8

♡ 19

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Michio Sato as Asobi nakama

Masao Hayama as Asobi nakama

Mitsuko Yoshikawa as Haha

Chishû Ryû as (uncredited)

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 as the tragedy of maturity.

There Was a Father

1942

Japanese

7.5

♡ 4

100%

82%

Drama

father son relationship

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Kenji Ôyama as

Reikô Tani as

Chishû Ryû as Shuhei Horikawa

Shin Saburi as Yasutaro Kurokawa

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

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 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.

Dragnet Girl

1933

Japanese

6.9

♡ 7

Crime

Drama

Romance

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Jôji Oka as Jyoji

Yumeko Aizome as Misako

Chishû Ryû as Policeman

Reikô Tani as Secretary

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

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.

Good Morning

1959

Japanese

7.8

♡ 19

94%

parent child relationship

protest

television

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Fujio Suga as Itô Sensei - Minoru's Teacher

Keijirô Morozumi as Junsa

Kôji Shitara as Minoru Hayashi

Eijirô Tôno as Tomizawa

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 housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.

Early Spring

1956

Japanese

7.7

♡ 17

100%

87%

Action

co-workers relationship

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Masami Taura as Kôichi Kitagawa

Fujio Suga as Tanabe

Eijirô Tôno as Tokichi Hattori

Keijirô Morozumi as Tsuji

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

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.

A Hen in the Wind

1948

Japanese

7.4

♡ 8

Drama

guilt

post world war ii

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Kôji Mitsui as Hideo

Chishû Ryû as Kazuichiro Satake

Reiko Minakami as Orie Noma

Shûji Sano as Shuichi Amamiya

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences.

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

1952

Japanese

7.6

♡ 14

93%

husband wife relationship

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Kôji Shitara as Koji Yamauchi

Eijirô Yanagi as Naosuke Yamauchi

Keiko Tsushima as Setsuko Yamauchi

Mie Kitahara as Waitress

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

Equinox Flower

1958

Japanese

7.8

♡ 14

89%

father daughter conflict

shōwa era (1926-89)

tradition

wedding

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Fujio Suga as

Miyuki Kuwano as Hisako Hirayama

Ureo Egawa as Schoolmate Nakanishi

Toyo Takahashi as Wakamatsu's owner

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.

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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What Did the Lady Forget?

The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

An Autumn Afternoon

Floating Weeds

The Only Son

I Was Born, But...

There Was a Father

Tokyo Twilight

The Munekata Sisters

Dragnet Girl

The End of Summer

Good Morning

Early Spring

Tokyo Story

Late Autumn

Early Summer

A Hen in the Wind

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

Equinox Flower

Late Spring