Ozu

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

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

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

Moved by the work of director Yasujirô Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozu's films.

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.

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

A documentary about Ozu's life and career.

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

A tribute to director Yasujiro Ozu from 1993, featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders.

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

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

An interview with film scholar David Bordwell on Yasujiro Ozu's themes and style and a comparison of Ozu's 1959 film Good Morning and 1932 film I was born, but..

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 short documentary about a great Kabuki dancer.

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.

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

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

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

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.

In this documentary, filmmaker Daniel Raim delves into Yasujiro Ozu's remarkable late work, in which the master made the leap from black and white to color. In his stirring tribute to the great filmmaker, Raim examines Ozu's life and work through archival treasures such as his diary and the red teakettle from the family drama "Equinox Flower" (1958); sits down with Ozu's nephew and the producer of the director's gently elegiac final film, "An Autumn Afternoon" (1962); and interweaves many scenes and images from the vibrant and humane films with which the director capped his career.