A Mother Should Be Loved (1934)
Yasujirô Ozu

Whilst they are at school, two brothers - Sadao and Kosaku - learn that their father has just died from a heart attack. After the funeral, Okazuki, their uncle, visits their mother, Chieko, and asks her to carry on raising Sadao as if he were her own son...   [More...]

A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
Yasujirô Ozu

A kabuki troupe, led by the ageing actor Kihachi Ichikawa, arrives in a small seaside town. Without telling anyone, Kihachi takes the opportunity to visit a former mistress of his, Otsune, who bore him a son many years ago and now runs a restaurant...   [More...]

An Inn in Tokyo (1935)
Yasujirô Ozu

Accompanied by his two young sons, Zenko and Masako, Kihachi wanders around the industrial outskirts of Tokyo, desperately looking for work...   [More...]

Dragnet Girl (1933)
Yasujirô Ozu

By day, Tokiko leads a respectable life, working as an office typist for a large corporation. By night, she drops her pretence of respectability and becomes the mistress of a small time hoodlum, Jyoji...   [More...]

I Flunked, But... (1930)
Yasujirô Ozu

Takahasi spends most of his time in college idling about with his four friends. When the exams come round, these five devise various schemes to cheat their way to success, including writing notes on their shirts...   [More...]

I Was Born, But... (1932)
Yasujirô Ozu

Yoshi has recently moved with his family to the suburbs of Tokyo. His two young sons, Keiji and Ryoichi, become the victims of a local bully and are put off from attending school...   [More...]

The Lady and the Beard (1931)
Yasujirô Ozu

As a college student, Kiichi Okajima impresses everyone with his mastery of the Japanese martial art of Kendo. But, once he has graduated, the world seems not to appreciate his devotion to Japan's cultural traditions...   [More...]

The Only Son (1936)
Yasujirô Ozu

Japan, 1923. Otsune is a poor widow who struggles to bring up her only son Ryosuke in the rural town of Shinshu. One day, Ryosuke's teacher Ookubo visits Otsune and persuades her to allow her son to continue his studies after he leaves elementary school...   [More...]

Passing Fancy (1933)
Yasujirô Ozu

Kihachi and Jiro are two brewery workers living in a slum district of Tokyo. A widower, Kihachi has a young son, Tomio, who is ashamed of his father for being poor and illiterate...   [More...]

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
Kenji Mizoguchi

Tokyo in the mid-1880s. Kikunosuke Onoue intends to follow in the footsteps of his adopted father, the great Kabuki actor Kikugoro Onoue...   [More...]

That Night's Wife (1930)
Yasujirô Ozu

Shuji Hashizume, a struggling professional artist, is driven to steal money at gunpoint so that he can pay for medical treatment for his chronically sick infant daughter...   [More...]

Tokyo Chorus (1931)
Yasujirô Ozu

Some years after he graduated, Shinji Okajima has a young family and a job with an insurance company in Tokyo. His son wants a bicycle and so, reluctantly, Shinji promises to buy him one with money from his annual bonus...   [More...]

Walk Cheerfully (1930)
Yasujirô Ozu

Koyama Kenji, nicknamed Kenji the Knife, is a small-time crook who makes a dishonest living with his friends Senko, Gunpei and Chieko...   [More...]

What Did the Lady Forget? (1937)
Yasujirô Ozu

Komiya is a respected professor of medicine at Tokyo University. His wife, Tokiko, rules the roost in his house. Sparks begins to fly when the couple's teenage niece from Osaka, Setsuko, pays a visit...   [More...]

Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932)
Yasujirô Ozu

Tetsuo Horino, the spoiled son of an important company director, enjoys a carefree existence at college with his three close friends...   [More...]

Woman of Tokyo (1933)
Yasujirô Ozu

Ryoichi is a student who is financially dependent on his older sister Chikako. To pay for her brother's education, Chikako supplements her daytime income as a typist by, so she claims, working evenings for a university professor...   [More...]