Shinichi Himori

A collection of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains. With delicate and surprising humor, it paints a timeless portrait of loneliness and the human need to connect.

Two bruised souls enact a tender, hesitant romance in Hiroshi Shimizu's alternately poignant and playful wartime love story. A soldier (Chishu Ryu) is forced to prolong his stay at a rural spa when he accidentally cuts his foot on the titular object. Soon enough he tracks down its lovely owner (Kinuyo Tanaka) and finds himself smitten.

As World War II escalates, the tight-knit habitants of a street in Tokyo must relocate from their homes so that the government can use the space. Kinoshita's sensitive film, beautifully and resourcefully shot on a single set, traces the fears and desires of the evacuees.

A dying man devotes his last months to building a children's playground.

The life of a waitress takes a suffocatingly domestic turn after she marries the wealthy businessman who accidentally hit her with his car.

A surprising celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous story about a painter and a famous singer.

Yasujiro Ozu’s frequent leading man Chishu Ryu is riveting as Shuhei, a widowed high school teacher who finds that the more he tries to do what is best for his son’s future, the more they are separated. Though primarily a delicately wrought story of parental love, There Was a Father offers themes of sacrifice that were deemed appropriately patriotic by Japanese censors at the time of its release during World War II, making it a uniquely political film in Ozu’s body of work.