Chishū Ryū

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.

In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Claire and Eugene's relationship is falling apart, while a nuclear satellite threatens to fall out of orbit and destroy Earth. Claire travels the world when she meets Sam, a man with connections to technology that could change eve...

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.

The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.

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

A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.

A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.

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

A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis.

Moved by the work of director Yasujirô Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozu's films.

A schoolteacher struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, having neither money nor future prospects.

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son's hospital bills.

Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a drinking habit. She's always been in love with Hiroshi, but he left for France years ago without proposing. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries t...

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

A dramatization of the 24-hour period in which the Japanese government was deadlocked over the decision to accept or reject the Allies' demand for an unconditional surrender following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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.

A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she's a stripper.

Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage me...

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships.

An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies and thinks back to when he was fifteen. He recalls his time with, and away from, the girl cousin he grew up with and would have married, except the family and other pr...

A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.

A poor family of miners from Kyushu uproot themselves and make the long journey to what they hope is a better life in Hokkaido. Their journey is beset with hardship and tragedy.

A film adaptation of the autobiography of Aishinkakura Hiro, who lived a tumultuous life as the consort of Fuketsu, the younger brother of Emperor Puyi of Manchukuo.

Tora-san, the näive and romantic peddler, returns once more to his home in Hokkaido where, as usual, he falls in love with a lovely young lady. The girl this time is Rinko Ueno, who has come home in an attempt to repair her relati...

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Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.

Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi's sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in Oita. Meanwhile, Izumi's mother befriends Tora-san and together they travel to O...