Yasujirō Ozu

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

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.

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.

Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn't the most important man in his workplace.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.