Cinema of Japan
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The cinema of Japan, also known domestically as hōga, began in the late 1890s. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2022, it was the fourth largest by number of
Orochi (Buntarō Futagawa)
Roningai (Masahiro Makino)
Kintaro Hayakawa, one of the biggest stars in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s
Cinema poster for Sadao Yamanaka's 1937 Humanity and Paper Balloons
Tokyo Story
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Tokyo Story is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama, about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children.
Cinema of Japan
…renowned and highly influential. Some Japanese films of this period are now considered some of the greatest of all time: in 2012, Yasujirō Ozu's film Tokyo Story (1953) was placed at No. 3 on Sight & Sound's 100 greatest films of all time and dethroned Citizen Kane (1941) atop the Sight & Sound directors' poll…
Theatrical release poster
From left to right: Kōichi (So Yamamura), Fumiko (Kuniko Miyake), Shūkichi (Chishū Ryū), Noriko (Setsuko Hara), Shige (Haruko Sugimura) and Tomi (Chieko Higashiyama)
Ozu (far right) on set during shooting.