An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies and thinks back to when he was fifteen. Read More »
Tag Archives: Chishû Ryû
The Crowded Train / Manin densha (1957) Kon Ichikawa
Tamio Moroi graduates from a prestigious university and obtains a job at the Camel Brewery in a distant town. Read More »
Kazoku / Where Spring Comes Late (1970) Yôji Yamada
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. Read More »
Carmen Comes Home (1951) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine
With no practical skills and being slightly scatterbrained, Kin Aoyama ran away Read More »
Home from the Sea / 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 »
A Visage to Remember / 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 / 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 »
Tokyo Twilight / 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 (1944) Rikugun – Keisuke Kinoshita
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 »