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.

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.

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