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Tag Archives: Chishû Ryû
A Visage to Remember AKA Omokage (1948) Heinosuke Gosho, Yuriko Hamada, Chishû Ryû, Ichirô Ryûzaki
During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties Read More »
Tokyo Story AKA Tôkyô monogatari (1953) Yasujirô Ozu, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura
Elderly couple Shukishi and Tomi Hirayama live in the small coastal village of Onomichi Read More »
The Crowded Train AKA Manin densha (1957) Kon Ichikawa, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura
Tamio Moroi graduates from a prestigious university and obtains a job at the Camel Brewery in a distant town. Read More »
Tokyo Twilight AKA Tôkyô boshoku (1957) Yasujirô Ozu, Setsuko Hara, Ineko Arima, Chishû Ryû
Two sisters live with their father. The younger sister is embroiled in an affair and becomes pregnant. Read More »
The Army AKA Rikugun (1944) Keisuke Kinoshita, Chishû Ryû, Ken Mitsuda, Kazumasa Hoshino
Kinoshita’s ambitious and intensely moving film begins as a multi-generational epic about the military legacy of one Japanese family Read More »
Early Summer AKA Bakushû (1951) Yasujirô Ozu, Setsuko Hara, Chishû Ryû, Chikage Awashima
In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko Read More »
Good Morning AKA Ohayô (1959) Yasujirô Ozu, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû
This movie takes a look at a Westernized suburban area in Japan in the late ’50s. Read More »
Home from the Sea AKA Furusato (1972) Yôji Yamada, Hisashi Igawa, Chieko Baishô, Chishû Ryû
On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. Read More »
That Night’s Wife (1930) Yasujirô Ozu, Mitsuko Ichimura, Tokihiko Okada, Chishû Ryû
A desperate man with a sick daughter decides to commit a robbery in order to help her. Read More »
Japans Longest Day (1967) Kihachi Okamoto, Seiji Miyaguchi, Rokkô Toura, Chishû Ryû
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Read More »
Tsuki wa noborinu / The Moon Has Risen (1955) Kinuyo Tanaka, Chishû Ryû, Hisako Yamane, Yôko Sugi, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. Read More »
Banshun / Late Spring (1949) Yasujirô Ozu, Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Drama
Noriko is 27 years old and is still living with her father Somiya, a widower. Read More »
Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki / She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) Keisuke Kinoshita, Noriko Arita, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Drama, Romance
An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies (or Wild Chrysanthemums, as they are described in the title, or starworts, as they are referred to in the subtitles), and thinks back to when he was fifteen. Read More »
Sanma no aji / An Autumn Afternoon (1962) Yasujirô Ozu, Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Drama
In the early 60’s in Tokyo, the widower Hirayama is a former captain from the Japanese navy that works as a manager of a factory and lives with his twenty-four year-old daughter Michiko and his son Kazuo in his house.
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