Tokyo Story / Tôkyô monogatari (1953)
Drama
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
Starring: Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Sô Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer / Ningen no joken V-VI / Ningen no jôken (1961)
Drama | History | War
His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura, Yûsuke Kawazu, Chishû Ryû, Kyôko Kishida
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Early Summer / Bakushû (1951)
Drama
The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own. Noriko impulsively chooses her childhood friend, at once fulfilling her family's desires while tearing them apart.
Starring: Setsuko Hara, Chishû Ryû, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai, Chieko Higashiyama
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
An Autumn Afternoon / Sanma no aji (1962)
Drama
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 rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
Starring: Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, Teruo Yoshida, Noriko Maki
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Late Autumn / Akibiyori (1960)
Drama
A widow try to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.
Starring: Setsuko Hara, Chishû Ryû, Mariko Okada
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Good Morning / Ohayô (1959)
Comedy | Drama
Two young boys in Tokyo take a vow of silence after their parents refuse to buy them a TV set.
Starring: Chishû Ryû, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Equinox Flower / Higanbana (1958)
Comedy | Drama
Wataru Hirayama is an old-fashioned father, whose outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter tells him she wants a love-match.
Starring: Chishû Ryû, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga, Keiji Sada
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Floating Weeds / Ukikusa (1959)
Drama
A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame Oyoshi and their son Kiyoshi, even though Kiyoshi believes Komajuro is his uncle. The leading actress Sumiko is jealous and so, in order to humiliate the master, persuades the younger actress Kayo to seduce Kiyoshi.
Starring: Chishû Ryû
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Late Spring / Banshun (1949)
Drama
Noriko is 27 years old and still living with her widowed father. The people around her tries to talk her into marrying, but Noriko wants to stay taking care of her father.
Starring: Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura, Hohi Aoki, Jun Usami
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Spring Dreams / Haru no yume (1960)
Comedy | Drama
The family of a wealthy company president who live their own separate and selfish lives come to care for an elderly tramp who collapses outside their home. His friends come to visit him in great numbers, but they seem to have an ulterior motive…
Starring: Yoshiko Kuga, Mariko Okada, Chishû Ryû
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
