Early Summer 1951  N/R, 150 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Cast: Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichiro Sugai, Haruko Sugimura, Shuji Sano, Chieko Higashiyama, Kuniko Ikawa, Seiji Miyaguchi
Culture clashes provide the theme in this story, which is set in post-war Japan. Twenty-eight-year-old Noriko (Setsuko Hara) has grown up in her family home in which three generations live together. Harmony has reigned until her concerned family tries to arrange a marriage for her, but Noriko has her own plans for finding a husband. An excellent film about Japan's changing society following World War II.
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Escapade in Japan 1957  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Teresa Wright, Cameron Mitchell, Jon Provost, Roger Nakagawa, Clint Eastwood, Philip Ober, Kuniko Miyake, Susumu Fujita, Tatsuo Saito
When an American boy (Jon Provost) survives an airplane crash, he is rescued by Japanese fishermen and later reunited with his anxious parents.
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Late Spring 1949  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Cast: Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Haruko Sugimura, Jun Usami, Hohi Aoki, Masao Mishima, Kuniko Miyake, Yoshiko Tsubouchi, Yumeji Tsukioka, Yoko Katsuragi, Toyoko Takahashi, Jun Tanizaki
Twenty-seven-year-old Noriko (Setsuko Hara) is content living with her widower father Somiya (Chishu Ryu), but he fears that she will become an old maid and is determined to find a husband for her.
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Tokyo Story 1953 N/R, 139 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Cast: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, So Yamamura, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake, Nobuo Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Kyoko Kagawa, Eijiro Tono, Shiro Osaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka
Aging couple Shukichi (Chishu Ryu) and Tomi Hirayama (Chieko Higashiyama) travel to Tokyo with their daughter Kyoko (Kyoko Kagawa) to visit their son Same Per (So Yamamura) and daughter Shige Kaneko (Haruko Sugimura). After they arrive in Tokyo, they learn that their children are too busy to visit with them when they send them to Alami Hot Springs resort instead. The parents soon return to Tokyo where their children still ignore them. They leave for home, but tragedy strikes on the trip, and–after the funeral–the children return to their self-centered lives in this story that illustrates how modern society does not hold the elderly in high regard.
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| 1. Early Summer (1951)
2. Escapade in Japan (1957)
3. Late Spring (1949)
4. Tokyo Story (1953)
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