Chishū Ryū

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband’s return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor ...

A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, in Tokyo, ...

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events ...

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 ...

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.

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

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 ...

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in ...

The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love ...

Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko ...

When Izumi can’t stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for ...

A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

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 ...

Tora-san’s nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.

Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. ...

German director Wim Wenders made this documentary in which he tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu. When ...

Taking a message from Hiroshi’s father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the ...

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the ...

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old ...

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

When a theater troupe’s master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the ...

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

Wataru Hirayama outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is ...

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

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

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.