An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Yasujirô Ozu

Shuhei Hirayama is a comfortably off widower in his late fifties who lives in the suburbs of Tokyo with his grown up son Kazuo and daughter Michiko...   [More...]

Dodes'ka-den (1970)
Akira Kurosawa

Roku-chan lives with his mother in a small shack on a rubbish dump. A retarded young man with no hope of finding work, Roku-chan spends his days driving an imaginary tram around the dump...   [More...]

Equinox Flower (1958)
Yasujirô Ozu

Wataru Hirayama is a successful Tokyo businessman who is preoccupied with marrying off his eldest daughter Setsuko. When his friend Mikami tells him that his own daughter, Fumiko, has run off with a young musician, he agrees to visit Fumiko at her place of work to try to persuade her to return home...   [More...]

Good Morning (1959)
Yasujirô Ozu

Minoru and Isamu are two young brothers who live in a close-knit community in the suburbs of Tokyo. Their mother, Mrs Hayashi, the chairwoman of a wives' club, has fallen out with a neighbour, Mrs Haraguchi, by starting a rumour that the latter embezzled money from the club's funds to buy herself a washing machine...   [More...]

The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Akira Kurosawa

In war-torn feudal Japan, two peasants, Tahei and Matashichi, attempt to escape across the border from their own country, but are captured by enemy soldiers and forced into slavery...   [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...]

Late Autumn (1960)
Yasujirô Ozu

Mamiya, Taguchi and Hirayama, three prosperous middle-aged men, meet up to attend the seventh memorial service of their mutual college friend Miwa...   [More...]

The Lower Depths (1957)
Akira Kurosawa

Japan in the mid-19th century. A rundown tenement in a slum area is home to a bedraggled hodge-podge of thieves, gamblers and prostitutes, lowlife who have no future and who live on futile dreams...   [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...]

Sanjuro (1962)
Akira Kurosawa

Japan, sometime in the 1840s. Nine young samurai suspect that the lord chamberlain of their clan, Mutsuta, is complicit in the wave of organised crime that is threatening their community...   [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...]

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...]

Yuki et Nina (2009)
Hippolyte Girardot

When Yuki, a 9-year-old Franco-Japanese girl, learns that her parents are about to separate, she realises that she must accompany her mother to Japan...   [More...]