Yasujiro Ozu

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.

A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis.

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son's hospital bills.

In postwar Japan, an abandoned boy nobody wants to take care of grows a relationship with a cynical middle-aged woman.

A schoolteacher struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, having neither money nor future prospects.

When the patriarch of the Toda family suddenly dies, his widow discovers that he has left her with nothing but debt and married children who are unwilling to support her--except for her most thoughtful son, just returned from China.

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada to take her home, while he sleeps at Okada's. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home, and also of her husband when she discovers that he did not go golfing.

A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.

Two half-brothers try to cope with the loss of their father.

Ryoichi and Chikako are brother and sister. They live together. Chikako works during the day in an office and at night she prostitutes herself to fund her brother's studies at the university. Ryoichi doesn't know about his sister's secret life, but he is dating Harue whose brother is a policeman.

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.

Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn't the most important man in his workplace.

A bearded kendo champion has difficulties in life because of his conservative ways and his unusual beard.

A story of a college student (Tatsuo Saitô) and his schoolmates trying to pass the exams by cheating.

A desperate man with a sick daughter decides to commit a robbery in order to help her. He begins to feel remorse though, which makes him question his decision.

A small-time hood wants to go straight for a good girl but finds that starting over isn't as simple as it sounds.

Feeling the position to be beneath him, a college graduate turns down a receptionist job, but soon finds it necessary to fool his mother and fiancé into thinking that he is employed.

A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.