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Film · 10 connectionsA young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.
Directed byYasujirō Ozu
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1952 · 116 min · Drama
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
Same director
1951 · 125 min · Drama
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.
Same director
1960 · 128 min · Comedy · Drama
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.
Strong story similarity
1961 · 103 min · Drama · Romance
A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.
Strong story similarity
1954 · 102 min · Drama · Romance
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.
Same director
1961 · 103 min · Drama
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
Shared cast
1951 · 97 min · Drama
In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for a brief stay to escape an arranged marriage.
Shared cast
1946 · 81 min · Drama
A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.
Strong story similarity
1961 · 91 min · Drama · Mystery · Romance
Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.
Strong story similarity
1956 · 116 min · Drama · Romance
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an anniversary wake. Some time following the ceremony one of the attendees marries the widow. Soon another friend of the deceased and his family also make the house their home when they move to town. Everyone's life is changed quite a bit. When the newer husband sustains an injury to his leg and loses his job it leads to the wife having to work. By the time the fifth anniversary of the friend's death occurs and another reunion is held another friend is in love with the former widow.
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