Setsuko Hara

Comedy turns to pathos in Yasujiro Ozu's tale of a group of businessmen who conspire to match-make for a widow and her daughter.

A brewery manager tries to manage his daughter's affairs in the wake of his wife's death.

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.

In post-World War II Japan, childlike veteran Kinji suffers from post-traumatic stress-induced seizures, and, after treatment at a mental health institution in Okinawa, he returns to his hometown. There he meets and becomes romantically caught up with two women -- Taeko and Ayako. Another man, Denkichi, is passionately in love with Taeko, too. So when Kinji begins favoring Taeko, a violent conflict erupts between the two men.

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

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.

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.