1Ikiru
TMDB8.3
1952·1.4K votes
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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2Tokyo Twilight
TMDB7.7
1957·154 votes
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
3Chikamatsu Monogatari
TMDB7.8
1954·153 votes
When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.
4Floating Weeds
TMDB7.5
1959·201 votes
A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.
5Good Morning
TMDB7.7
1959·314 votes
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
6Street of Shame
TMDB7.7
1956·151 votes
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
7Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
TMDB7.2
1956·141 votes
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.
8The Lower Depths
TMDB7.1
1957·142 votes
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.