Chishū Ryū

An aging couple visits their children in Tokyo only to find heartache and rejection.

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.

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.

An aging widower reckons with feelings of loneliness and nostalgia as he prepares for his only daughter to get married and leave the home.

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.

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.

German director Wim Wenders travels to Tokyo to explore the world of one of his cinematic heroes, Japanese celebrated film director Yasujirō Ozu. Sequences of Wenders’ view of Japan alternate with encounters and conversations with the crew and cast members of Ozu’s films.

Yasujiro Ozu's cheerful comedy about the silliness of everyday chatter

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

In a Japan recently devastated by World War II a devoted, near-destitute mother turns to prostitution to pay medical bills when her son falls dangerously ill.

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.

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