Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He began his career during the era of silent films. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s. Marriage and family, especially the relationships between the generations, are prominent themes in Ozu's work. His most lauded films include Late Spring (1949), Tokyo Story (1953), Floating Weeds (1959), and An Autumn Afternoon (1962). His reputation has continued to grow since his death, and he is widely regarded as one of the world's most influential directors. In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, Ozu's Tokyo Story was voted the greatest film of all time by world directors.
9
3
3
In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a home...
More info
A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealo...
More info9
3
4
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegi...
More info9
3
5
An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo,...
More info9
3
6
A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him...
More info9
3
7
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niec...
More info9
3
8
9
3
9
9
4
0
9
4
1
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to ...
More info9
4
2
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither...
More info9
4
3
9
4
4
9
4
5
9
4
6
9
4
7
A hard-hearted old woman in a bombed-out Tokyo neighborhood reluctantly takes in an abandoned boy, l...
More info9
4
8
Tokiko patiently awaits her husband's return from WWII when her four-year old son falls ill. She tak...
More info9
4
9
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marr...
More info9
5
0
9
5
1
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her soci...
More info9
5
2
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is t...
More info9
5
3
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v...
More info9
5
4
9
5
5
9
5
6
9
5
7
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact...
More info9
5
8
9
5
9
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergeneration...
More info
A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected ev...
More info9
6
0
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular...
More info9
6
1
9
6
2
Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to rea...
More infoRecent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An Autumn Afternoon (1962) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 2 | Late Autumn (1960) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 3 | Good Morning (1959) | Director / Writer | 7.5 | |
| 4 | Floating Weeds (1959) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 5 | Tokyo Twilight (1957) | Director / Writer | 1 | |
| 6 | Tokyo Story (1953) | Director / Writer | 7.2 | |
| 7 | The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 8 | Early Summer (1951) | Director / Writer | 4.5 | |
| 9 | Late Spring (1949) | Director / Writer | 4.5 | |
| 10 | A Hen in the Wind (1948) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 11 | Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) | Director / Writer | 2 | |
| 12 | There Was a Father (1942) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 13 | Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 14 | What Did the Lady Forget? (1937) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 15 | The Only Son (1936) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 16 | An Inn in Tokyo (1935) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 17 | A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 18 | Passing Fancy (1933) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 19 | Dragnet Girl (1933) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 20 | I Was Born, But... (1932) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 21 | Tokyo Chorus (1931) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 22 | I Flunked, But... (1930) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 23 | Walk Cheerfully (1930) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 24 | That Night's Wife (1930) | Director / Writer | 3 |

