
7.2
Tora-san’s Love Call
IMDb: 7.2 1971 114 min
Taking a message from Hiroshi’s father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.

6.9
It’s Tough Being a Man
IMDb: 6.9 1969 91 min
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 ...

7.7
Japan’s Longest Day
IMDb: 7.7 1967 157 min
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the ...

8
An Autumn Afternoon
IMDb: 8 1962 114 min
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 ...

8.8
The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer
IMDb: 8.8 1961 190 min
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 ...

7.9
Late Autumn
IMDb: 7.9 1960 128 min
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.

7.9
Floating Weeds
IMDb: 7.9 1959 115 min
When a theater troupe’s master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

7.8
Good Morning
IMDb: 7.8 1959 94 min
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the ...

7.5
The Rickshaw Man
IMDb: 7.5 1958 103 min
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman’s husband dies suddenly.

7.8
Equinox Flower
IMDb: 7.8 1958 118 min
Wataru Hirayama’s outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician ...

8
Tokyo Twilight
IMDb: 8 1957 141 min
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.

7.7
Early Spring
IMDb: 7.7 1956 145 min
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

8
Twenty-Four Eyes
IMDb: 8 1954 156 min
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 ...

8.1
Tokyo Story
IMDb: 8.1 1953 137 min
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their ...

7.7
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
IMDb: 7.7 1952 116 min
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

5.9
Fireworks Over the Sea
IMDb: 5.9 1951 122 min
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

6.8
Boyhood
IMDb: 6.8 1951 110 min
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

8
Early Summer
IMDb: 8 1951 125 min
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

7.3
The Munekata Sisters
IMDb: 7.3 1950 112 min
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of ...

8.2
Late Spring
IMDb: 8.2 1949 110 min
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry — that is, until her aunt Masa ...

7.5
There Was a Father
IMDb: 7.5 1942 93 min
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

7.7
The Only Son
IMDb: 7.7 1936 87 min
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son’s education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she ...

6.9
Dragnet Girl
IMDb: 6.9 1933 100 min
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.