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7.9 Early Summer

Early Summer

Noriko lives in postwar Tokyo with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her friends, her more traditionally minded family worries about the fact that she's still single at the advanced age of 28. When 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes marriage, Noriko's family press her into accepting. But when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.

NR
7.9
1951 Drama 135 min Play
8.3 Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

NR
8.3
1953 Drama 137 min Play
7.8 Late Autumn

Late Autumn

A mother gets help from her late husband's three friends in order to get her daughter married to a well-settled man.

NR
7.8
1960 Drama 128 min Play
8.2 Late Spring

Late Spring

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

NR
8.2
1949 Drama 110 min Play
7.5 Tokyo Twilight

Tokyo Twilight

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

NR
7.5
1957 Drama 141 min Play
7.4 Sound of the Mountain

Sound of the Mountain

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

NR
7.4
1954 Drama 96 min Play
6.8 No Regrets for Our Youth

No Regrets for Our Youth

Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings during a purge of anti-militarism in pre-war Kyoto. Years go by as she is courted by two of her father's former students; one a fiery leftist, the other more moderate and equable.

NR
6.8
1946 Drama 110 min Play