A Hen in the Wind (1948)
Yasujirô Ozu

In a slum district of Tokyo, not long after the end of WWII... With her husband Shuichi still awaiting repatriation, Tokiko struggles to bring up their four year old son alone...   [More...]

The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
Yasujirô Ozu

The Todas, a respectable, upper-class Japanese family, gather for a family photograph on the occasion of their father's 69th birthday...   [More...]

Drunken Angel (1948)
Akira Kurosawa

In post-war Japan, Sanada, a disillusioned doctor suffering from alcoholism, reluctantly extracts a bullet from the hand of a young hoodlum named Matsunaga...   [More...]

Late Spring (1949)
Yasujirô Ozu

Professor Somiya, a widower in his fifties, lives in the suburbs of Tokyo with his 27-year-old daughter Noriko. It is an arrangement that suits them both...   [More...]

The Silent Duel (1949)
Akira Kurosawa

During WWII, a young doctor named Kyoji Fujisaki contracts syphilis whilst performing an operation on an infected patient...   [More...]

Stray Dog (1949)
Akira Kurosawa

In post-war Tokyo, a trainee cop Murakami becomes obsessed with recovering his Colt pistol when it is stolen by a pickpocket...   [More...]

There Was a Father (1942)
Yasujirô Ozu

Shuhei Horikawa is a schoolteacher and widower who is devotedly attached to his ten-year-old son, Ryohei. During a class outing, some of his pupils disobey his instructions and go off on a boating trip, in which one of them drowns...   [More...]