Haruko Sugimura

Kinoshita's first film after the end of World War II is a wrenching, superbly wrought tale about a liberal-minded Japanese family torn apart by war and imperialist politics. Morning for the Osone Family is both palpably bitter about the nation's fresh wartime wounds and inspiringly hopeful about a democratic tomorrow.

Yasujirô Ozu’s Tokyo Story (Tôkyô Monogatari) follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, postwar Tokyo.

Several people, including friends and family, try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but she only wants to keep caring for her widowed father.

Two boys stop speaking until their parents will buy them a new TV.

When her lover visits the mother of his child, a jealous actress plots revenge.

In 8th century China as the Emperor grieves the death of his wife, the Yang family provides him a consort to consolidate its influence over the court.

Kinoshita’s ambitious and intensely moving film begins as a multigenerational epic about the military legacy of one Japanese family, before settling into an emotionally complex portrayal of parental love during wartime. As the mother and father of a boy shipped off to battle, Kinuyo Tanaka and Chishu Ryu locate profound depths of feeling that transcend ideology.

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

In post-World War II Japan, a 28-year-old woman's family wants to find her a husband. But they have very different ideas about what constitutes a good match.

A woman leaves her abusive husband and moves in with her father, who is also sheltering another daughter, pregnant from a dead-end affair.