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1. Wings of Desire (1987)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois
Votes: 77,219 | Gross: $3.33M
2. Tokyo Story (1953)
Not Rated | 136 min | Drama
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara
Votes: 68,778
3. Late Spring (1949)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura
Votes: 19,393
4. Good Morning (1959)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake
Votes: 11,074
5. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada
Votes: 10,727
6. Early Summer (1951)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance
A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Chishû Ryû, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake
Votes: 9,696
7. Floating Weeds (1959)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama
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.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Ganjirô Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Haruko Sugimura, Ayako Wakao
Votes: 8,993
8. I Was Born, But... (1932)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn't the most important man in his workplace.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Tatsuo Saitô, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara
Votes: 6,221
9. Late Autumn (1960)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada
Votes: 6,193
10. Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Ineko Arima, Chishû Ryû, Isuzu Yamada
Votes: 4,964
11. Equinox Flower (1958)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga
Votes: 4,863
12. The End of Summer (1961)
103 min | Drama
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.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Ganjirô Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Michiyo Aratama
Votes: 4,512
13. The Only Son (1936)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
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.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chôko Iida, Shin'ichi Himori, Masao Hayama, Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Votes: 4,047
14. Early Spring (1956)
145 min | Drama
A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chikage Awashima, Ryô Ikebe, Teiji Takahashi, Keiko Kishi
Votes: 3,737
15. The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama
A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Kôji Tsuruta, Chishû Ryû
Votes: 3,696
16. A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
A kabuki actor's mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover's son.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Chôko Iida, Kôji Mitsui, Emiko Yagumo
Votes: 3,467
17. There Was a Father (1942)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A schoolteacher struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, having neither money nor future prospects.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Shûji Sano, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto
Votes: 3,164
18. Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
72 min | Drama
A young boy follows Tashiro home to his tenement housing complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, the boy who was separated from his carpenter father somehow and somewhere in Kudan. All Tashiro ... See full summary »
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chôko Iida, Hôhi Aoki, Eitarô Ozawa, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Votes: 2,255
19. A Hen in the Wind (1948)
84 min | Drama
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.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Shûji Sano, Chieko Murata, Chishû Ryû
Votes: 1,820
20. An Inn in Tokyo (1935)
80 min | Drama
Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn't keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Yoshiko Okada, Chôko Iida, Tomio Aoki
Votes: 1,653
21. Tokyo Chorus (1931)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A married Tokyo man faces unemployment after standing up for an older colleague.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yagumo, Hideo Sugawara, Hideko Takamine
Votes: 1,581
22. Passing Fancy (1933)
100 min | Drama
Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Ôhinata, Chôko Iida
Votes: 1,478
23. The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
105 min | Drama
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.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino, Ayako Katsuragi
Votes: 1,438
24. Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka (1937)
71 min | Comedy, Drama
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, ... See full summary »
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Sumiko Kurishima, Tatsuo Saitô, Michiko Kuwano, Shûji Sano
Votes: 1,298
25. Munekata shimai (1950)
112 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Sanae Takasugi
Votes: 1,178
26. Dragnet Girl (1933)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Jôji Oka, Sumiko Mizukubo, Kôji Mitsui
Votes: 1,058
27. Woman of Tokyo (1933)
47 min | Drama
Ryoichi and Chikako are brother and sister. They live together. Chikako works during the day in an office and at night she prostitutes herself to fund her brother's studies at the ... See full summary »
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Yoshiko Okada, Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Shin'yô Nara
Votes: 1,048
28. That Night's Wife (1930)
TV-MA | 65 min | Crime, Drama
A desperate man with a sick daughter decides to commit a robbery in order to help her. He begins to feel remorse though, which makes him question his decision.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Mitsuko Ichimura, Tokihiko Okada, Chishû Ryû, Tatsuo Saitô
Votes: 962
29. Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (1955)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Drama
A samurai travels to Edo with his two servants. On their way, they meet many people and encounter great injustice.
Director: Tomu Uchida | Stars: Chiezô Kataoka, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, Chizuru Kitagawa, Yuriko Tashiro
Votes: 957
30. Walk Cheerfully (1930)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A small-time hood wants to go straight for a good girl but finds that starting over isn't as simple as it sounds.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Minoru Takada, Hiroko Kawasaki, Satoko Date, Takeshi Sakamoto
Votes: 756
31. Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuo Saitô, Harurô Takeda
Votes: 665
32. Yasujirô Ozu's Bakushû: The Remake of Early Summer (2011)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Drama
A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans to disagree with it.
Director: Mikihiro Endô | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Fumiko Mamiya, Kouichi Mamiya, Noriko Mamiya
Votes: 656
33. A Straightforward Boy (1929)
38 min | Short, Comedy
A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Tatsuo Saitô, Tomio Aoki, Takeshi Sakamoto
Votes: 644
34. Days of Youth (1929)
103 min | Comedy
Two friends try and court the same woman.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Ichirô Yûki, Tatsuo Saitô, Junko Matsui, Shin'ichi Himori
Votes: 606
35. I Flunked, But... (1930)
65 min | Comedy, Drama
A story of a college student (Tatsuo Saitô) and his schoolmates trying to pass the exams by cheating.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Tatsuo Saitô, Kaoru Futaba, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomio Aoki
Votes: 565
36. I Graduated, But... (1929)
70 min | Comedy
Feeling the position to be beneath him, a college graduate turns down a receptionist job, but soon finds it necessary to fool his mother and fiancé into thinking that he is employed.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Minoru Takada, Kinuyo Tanaka, Utako Suzuki, Kenji Ôyama
Votes: 557
37. A Mother Should Be Loved (1934)
93 min | Drama
Two half-brothers try to cope with the loss of their father.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Yûkichi Iwata, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Den Ôhinata, Seiichi Katô
Votes: 530
38. The Lady and the Beard (1931)
75 min | Comedy, Romance
A bearded kendo champion has difficulties in life because of his conservative ways and his unusual beard.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Tokihiko Okada, Hiroko Kawasaki, Chôko Iida, Satoko Date
Votes: 504
39. The Moon Has Risen (1955)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships.
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Shûji Sano, Hisako Yamane, Yôko Sugi
Votes: 443
40. Fighting Friends (1929)
14 min | Short, Comedy
A simple story of two friends who live together in a poor tenement and who share about everything in life, until they gallantly rescue a woman injured in a road accident.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Atsushi Watanabe, Hisao Yoshitani, Eiko Takamatsu, Tomoko Naniwa
Votes: 331
41. Lion in the Mirror (1936)
24 min | Documentary, Short
A short documentary about a great Kabuki dancer.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Kikugoro Onoe, Kinjirou Onoe, Shigeru Onoe, Wafuu Matsunaga
Votes: 303
42. Such a Long Absence (1985)
84 min | Drama
A young girl decides to stand by her mentally ill sister and faces the isolation and cruelty of her social environment, which refuses to see her act as a gesture of love and sensitivity.
Director: Stavros Tsiolis | Stars: Pemi Zouni, Dimitra Hatoupi, Minas Hatzisavvas, Konstantinos Tzoumas
Votes: 131
43. College is a Nice Place (1935)
114 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Toshiaki Konoe, Chishû Ryû, Sanae Takasugi, Tatsuo Saitô
Votes: 61
44. Zange no yaiba (1927)
70 min | Drama
Ishimatsu is out of jail and wants to rebuild his life. But his brother, Sakichi, and his old partners are not going to allow it.
Directors: Yasujirô Ozu, Torajirô Saitô | Stars: Hikaru Kitchôji, Kunimatsu Ogawa, Eiko Atsumi, Kanji Kawara
Votes: 58
45. Young Lady (1930)
135 min | Comedy
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Sumiko Kurishima, Tokihiko Okada, Tatsuo Saitô, Kinuyo Tanaka
Votes: 58
46. An Innocent Maid (1935)
67 min | Drama
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chôko Iida, Kinuyo Tanaka, Takeshi Sakamoto, Tomio Aoki
Votes: 56
47. Dreams of Youth (1928)
56 min | Comedy
Okada and Kato, students at 'W' [i.e. Waseda] University, in Tokyo, live in the same lodgings. One morning, Kato receives a tailor's bill. Okada has seen the letter arrive, so Kato tells ... See full summary »
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Tatsuo Saitô, Nobuko Wakaba, Hisao Yoshitani, Junko Matsui
Votes: 53
48. Bijin to aishû (1931)
158 min | Drama
Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Tokihiko Okada, Tatsuo Saitô, Yukiko Inoue, Sôtarô Okada
Votes: 50
49. The Luck Which Touched the Leg (1930)
74 min | Drama
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Tatsuo Saitô, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Ichimura
Votes: 49
50. Until the Day We Meet Again (1932)
103 min | Drama
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Yoshiko Okada, Jôji Oka, Shin'yô Nara, Hiroko Kawasaki
Votes: 49