Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of…

In this film director Yoji Yamada bows down before his teacher and role model. Yamada was assistant director on Yazujirō Ozu’s Tōkyō monogatari, a moving family portrait set after the…

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of…

Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a friend’s sister. Tora-san meanwhile helps an injured housewife on her…

Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.

When Tora-san’s infatuation with his nephew’s school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher’s mother.

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.