BEST:Yasujirô Ozu

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.

The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

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

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis.

A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a drinking habit. She's always been in love with Hiroshi, but he left for France years ago without proposing. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries to reunite them, although secretly she loves him too.

Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son's hospital bills.

In postwar Japan, an abandoned boy nobody wants to take care of grows a relationship with a cynical middle-aged woman.

A schoolteacher struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, having neither money nor future prospects.

When the patriarch of the Toda family suddenly dies, his widow discovers that he has left her with nothing but debt and married children who are unwilling to support her--except for her most thoughtful son, just returned from China.

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada to take her home, while he sleeps at Okada's. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home, and also of her husband when she discovers that he did not go golfing.

A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.

A group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs.

Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn't keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka.

A kabuki actor's mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover's son.

Two half-brothers try to cope with the loss of their father.

Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.