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Walk Cheerfully (1930) IMDb TMDB

朗かに歩め

director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Minoru Takada / Hiroko Kawasaki …

other title: Passeggiate allegramente! / Va d'un pas léger …

Raucous small-time thief Kenji falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, but when she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him until he proves to be honest. Kenji soon finds it's not so easy to get rid of one's past.

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A Mother Should Be Loved (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB

母を恋はずや

director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Yukichi Iwata / Mitsuko Yoshikawa …

other title: Una madre dovrebbe essere amata / L'Amour d'une mère …

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for always punishing him more severely than his stepsibling.

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Woman of Tokyo (1933) WikiData IMDb TMDB

東京の女

director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Yoshiko Okada / Ureo Egawa …

other title: Una donna di Tokyo / Une femme de Tokyo …

Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.

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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB

戸田家の兄妹

director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Hideo Fujino / Fumiko Katsuragi …

other title: Fratelli e sorelle della famiglia Toda / Les Frères et Sœurs Toda …

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.

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Kyūkon sannin musume (1954) IMDb TMDB

求婚三人娘

director: Teruo Hagiyama actor: Machiko Mizuhara / Keiko Awaji …

other title: 求婚三人娘

1954 Japanese movie

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Every-Night Dreams (1933) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB +2

夜ごとの夢

director: Mikio Naruse actor: Sumiko Kurishima / Tatsuo Saitō …

other title: Rêves de chaque nuit / Sueños cotidianos …

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier.

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Passing Fancy (1933) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB

出来ごころ

director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Takeshi Sakamoto / Tomio Aoki …

other title: Capriccio passeggero / Cœur capricieux …

In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take her in.

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Army (1944) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB +2

陸軍

director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Chishū Ryū / Kinuyo Tanaka …

other title: L'esercito / L'Armée …

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

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Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB

長屋紳士録

director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Chōko Iida / Hōhi Aoki …

other title: Chi è di un inquilino / História de um Proprietário Rural …

A hard-hearted old woman in a bombed-out Tokyo neighborhood reluctantly takes in an abandoned boy, leading to a heartwarming bond between them.

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An Inn in Tokyo (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB

東京の宿

director: Yasujirō Ozu actor: Takeshi Sakamoto / Yoshiko Okada …

other title: Una locanda a Tokyo / Une auberge à Tokyo …

An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and befriends a woman and her daughter, who are in a similar predicament.