Tokyo Story

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow, does what she can to keep her daughter Utako and son Seiichi safe, fed, and sheltered. By 1953, it's clear that the chil

A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis.

Poor, pathetic mother Ose has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men.

Follows a woman who must rise above hardships to save her grandchildren, and herself.

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.

In this update of Yasujiro Ozu's "Tokyo Story", a retired schoolteacher and his wife visit their three working children in modern-day Tokyo.

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

A dying businessman intends to will two hundred million yen to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.