Films with: Ozu, Yasujirō

Akibiyori Late autumn /

Similar in theme to Ozu's earlier film "Late Spring," the child character of that film is now portrayed as the parent in this tale of mother and daughter relationship.

DVD 12791

Bakushū Early summer /

The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own.

DVD 3365

Banshun Late spring /

The story of a widower and his daughter who through devotion to him is getting past a marriageable age. The father pretends to marry a young wife so his daughter will feel less obligated to stay with him. She marries and he prepares to live the remainder of his life alone.

DVD 4233

Chichi arikii There was a father /

After the death of his wife, a school teacher raises his son alone in Kanazawa. One day the father accompanies his students on a field trip and one of the students is fatally injured. Taking responsibility for the accident, the father puts his son in a boarding school and goes to work in a factory in Tokyo. The son grows up to become a teacher and eventually meets his father again. He expresses his desire to quit his job, move to Tokyo and live together with his father. The father is horrified at this idea and admonishes his son to return to his work and not put his own feelings above his responsibilities.

DVD 9072

Dekigokoro

Set in a crowded city tenement, a story of contrasts depicting an illiterate, lighthearted brewery worker, who is also a single father to a young, educated son. Their relationship is complicated when a woman becomes involved.

DVD 8522

Higanbana Equinox flower /

In Ozu's first color film, a stubborn businessman with traditional views is faced with a modern-minded daughter and her nontraditional fiance.

DVD 12790

Hitori musuko Only son /

The story examines the motherly love of a peasant woman who gives up everything so that her son can receive education in Tokyo. Ten years later, the mother pays her son a visit in Tokyo, believing that he has become a successful young man. However, upon arrival, she is bitterly disappointed to find out that her son is working as a night-school teacher and living in poverty with his family.

DVD 9084

Kohayagawake no aki The end of summer /

A story examining the lives of three sisters who are dismayed to see their aging father let his business falter while he enjoys a second childhood with his former mistress.

DVD 12792

Ohayō Good morning /

Satiric comedy in which two young brothers refuse to talk until their parents agree to buy them a television set. Set in a 1950s residential suburb of Tokyo.

DVD 1683

Sōshun

A salaryman in postwar Tokyo has an illicit affair with an officemate in this sensitive portrait of a fragile marriage.

DVD 12788

Tōkyō boshoku Tokyo twilight /

Two sisters struggle with a host of family issues, including the loss of their mother, an unwanted pregnancy, and marital difficulties.

DVD 12789

Tōkyō monogatari Tokyo story /

Tokyo Story follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, post-war Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while the children, grief-stricken, hasten to be with her.

DVD 3386

Tōkyō no kōrasu

His son wants a bicycle, his daughter a balloon, his wife just wants to have financial stability. Low wage-earning dad Okajima is counting on his bonus to make ends meet. His wife and children also eagerly await the additional money. But payday doesn't go exactly as planned.

DVD 8509

Ukigusa

An aging actor returns to the town where his son lives, who has believed all these years that he is his uncle rather than his father.

DVD 8127

Ukigusa monogatari A story of floating weeds /

In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent film: A Story of Floating Weeds in color and sound with the cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu). Setting his later version in a seaside location, Ozu otherwise preserves the details of his elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunities with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all. A Story of Floating Weeds reveals Ozu in the midst of developing his mode of expression; Floating weeds reveals his distinct style at its pinnacle. In each, the director captures the joy and sadness in everyday life.

DVD 4584

Umarete wa mita keredo otona no miru ehon /

A portrait of the financial and psychological toils of a family, as two young boys come to understand their father's low status in society.

DVD 8521