Kuniko Miyake

Widower Shuhei Hirayama’s caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged ...

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the ...

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their ...

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries ...

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry — that is, until her aunt Masa ...

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 ...