Films with: Yamamura, Sō

Inheritance

On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown. A bevy of lawyers and associates begin machinations to procure the money for themselves, resorting to the use of impostors and blackmail. Yet all are outwitted by the cunning of the man's secretary, in this entertaining condemnation of unchecked greed.

DVD 9650

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