Poll: Happy Birthday Yasujirô Ozu!

Results of 354 votes:

1. 1.
   

   Tokyo Story (1953)

    

   An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city; but the children have little time for them.
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   Late Spring (1949)

    

   Noriko is twenty-seven years old and still living with her widowed father. Everybody tries to talk her into marrying, but Noriko wants to stay at home caring for her father.
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   An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

    

   An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.
4. 4.
   

   Early Summer (1951)

    

   A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.
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   Floating Weeds (1959)

    

   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.
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   Good Morning (1959)

    

   Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.
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   I Was Born, But... (1932)

    

   Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Their father is an office clerk who tries for advancement by playing up his boss. When the boys visit the boss' house wit…
8. 8.
   

   Equinox Flower (1958)

    

   A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.
9. 9.
   

   Tokyo Twilight (1957)

    

   Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.
10. 10.
    

    A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)

     

    A kabuki actor's mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover's son.
11. 11.
    

    Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (1955)

     

    A samurai travels to Edo with his two servants. On their way, they meet many people and encounter great injustice.
12. 12.
    

    Late Autumn (1960)

     

    A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.
13. 13.
    

    The End of Summer (1961)

     

    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.
14. 14.
    

    Early Spring (1956)

     

    A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.
15. 15.
    

    The Only Son (1936)

     

    In 1923, in the province of Shinshu, the widow and simple worker of a silk factory Tsune Nonomiya (O-Tsune) decides to send her only son to Tokyo for having a better education. Thirteen years later, s…
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    There Was a Father (1942)

     

    Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
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    That Night's Wife (1930)

     

    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.
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    An Inn in Tokyo (1935)

     

    Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn't keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka.
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    Zange no yaiba (1927)

     

    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.
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    The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)

     

    A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis of sorts.
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    Woman of Tokyo (1933)

     

    Ryoichi and Chikako are brother and sister. They live together. Chikako works during the day in a office and at night she prostitutes herself to fund her brother studies in univesity. Ryoichi doesn't …
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    The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)

     

    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 thoughtfu…
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    Dragnet Girl (1933)

     

    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.
24. 24.
    

    A Mother Should Be Loved (1934)

     

    Two half-brothers try to cope with the loss of their father.
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    The Lady and the Beard (1931)

     

    A bearded kendo champion has difficulties in life because of his conservative ways and his unusual beard.
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    A Hen in the Wind (1948)

     

    A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife has resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son's hospital bills.
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    Tokyo Chorus (1931)

     

    A married Tokyo man faces unemployment after standing up for an older colleague.
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    Munekata kyôdai (1950)

     

    Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years a…
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    Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)

     

    In post-war Japan, a man brings a lost boy to his tenement. No one wants to take the child for even one night; finally, a sour widow, Tané, does. The next day, complaining, she takes the boy to his ne…
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    Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka (1937)

     

    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 smoki…
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    Passing Fancy (1933)

     

    Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.
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    Walk Cheerfully (1930)

     

    Kenji is a small thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him 'until he becomes an honest p…
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    Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932)

     

    When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
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    Days of Youth (1929)

     

    Two friends try and court the same woman.
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    I Flunked, But... (1930)

     

    A story of a college student (Tatsuo Saitô) and his schoolmates trying to pass the exams by cheating.