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  • Ozu - Vol. 3 - Good Morning
  • Ozu - Vol. 3 - Good Morning review by phascogale from Bournemouth,England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Farting schoolboys ! 18 November 2010
    ...tting used to. It's a gem , basically a comedy but with typical deeper touches (Chishu Ryu contemplating retirement) . It's a microcosm of a Japanese new-build village wi...   Read customer review
  • Tokyo-Ga
  • Tokyo-Ga review by Savage from London, England
    Rated - 2.0 stars A solid, but flawed, documentary 3 April 2007
    ...ort to link contemporary Tokyo to the city portrayed by Ozu; his interview with Chishu Ryu is strikingly unilluminating (and only partly due to the actor's modesty). Onl...   Read customer review

Chishu Ryu - filmography


  • Tokyo-Ga
  • Tokyo-Ga on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Chishu Ryu,  Werner Herzog,  Yuuharu Atsuta
    Director: Wim Wenders
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Having been moved by the work of acclaimed director Yasujiro Ozu, Wenders travels to Japan to search out the Tokyo he has seen in his films, discovering along the way how the country is losing its identity and culture to Americanisation.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 252 members
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  • Ozu - Vol. 4 - Late Autumn
  • Ozu - Vol. 4 - Late Autumn on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Chishu Ryu,  Shima Iwashita,  Keiji Sada
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ayako Miwa (Yoko Tsukasa) gives up thoughts of marriage in order to care for her widowed mother Akiko (Setsuko Hara). However, Akiko wishes her daughter to marry even though she will be left alone into old age and when the well-meaning relatives of her deceased husband step into the fray suitors ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 258 members
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  • Ozu - Vol. 3 - Good Morning
  • Ozu - Vol. 3 - Good Morning (1959)
    Starring: Ineko Arima,  Setsuko Hara,  Chishu Ryu
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    GOOD MORNING is an update on his earlier silent film I WAS BORN, BUT...(1932), focusing on the impact of western culture and the decline of traditional values amongst the youth of post war Japan. it is a sparkling and lively portrait of divergent shades of humanity.
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 190 members
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  • Ozu - Vol. 3 - Tokyo Twilight
  • Ozu - Vol. 3 - Tokyo Twilight (1957)
    Starring: Ineko Arima,  Setsuko Hara,  Chishu Ryu
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    TOKYO TWILIGHT was his last black and white film and focused on family disintegration; it is also his darkest masterpiece. two adult sisters return to the family home and discover their long missing mother living with another man, leading to a destructive path of despair and isolation.
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 199 members
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  • Twenty-Four Eyes
  • Twenty-Four Eyes on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Hideko Takamine,  Chishu Ryu
    Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Keisuke Kinoshita's Twenty-four Eyes - which beat Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai as Kinema Junpo's Best Film of 1954 and won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1955 - is one of Japan's most beloved films. In 1999 it was picked by Japanese critics as one of the ten best Japanese films of all ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 777 members
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  • Early Summer - Blu-ray
  • Early Summer - Blu-ray (1951)
    Starring: Chikage Awashima,  Chishu Ryu,  Setsuko Hara
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko, their married son, his devoted wife, and two rascally sons. Their only discontent is Noriko's lack of a husband. Society is changing: she works, she has women friends who tease and argue, her ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 90 members
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  • Ozu - Vol. 4
  • Ozu - Vol. 4 (2 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Chishu Ryu,  Shima Iwashita,  Keiji Sada
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Late Autumn (aka: Akibiyori): Ayako Miwa (Yoko Tsukasa) gives up thoughts of marriage in order to care for her widowed mother Akiko (Setsuko Hara). However, Akiko wishes her daughter to marry even though she will be left alone into old age and when the well-meaning relatives of her deceased husband ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 258 members
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  • Ozu - Vol. 1
  • Ozu - Vol. 1 (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Chishu Ryu,  Setsuko Hara,  Chieko Higashiyama
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    'Tokyo Story' is a depiction of life's disappointments and frustrations told through the eyes of an ageing couple who go to visit their grown-up son and daughter in Tokyo. Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,443 member
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Chishu Ryu facts

5 most recent films

Tokyo-Ga - 3.5 stars
Ozu - Vol. 3 Tokyo Twilight / Equinox Flower / Good Morning - 4.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 4 - An Autumn Afternoon - 4.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 4 - Late Autumn - 4.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 3 - Good Morning - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Late Spring - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 3 - Good Morning - 4.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 3 - Tokyo Twilight - 4.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 3 - Equinox Flower - 4.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 4 - An Autumn Afternoon - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Equinox Flower / There Was A Father - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Equinox Flower / There Was A Father - 3.5 stars
Tokyo-Ga - 3.5 stars
Twenty-Four Eyes - 3.5 stars
Early Summer - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Setsuko Hara - 11 times - show films
Ineko Arima - 6 times - show films
Shin Saburi - 6 times - show films
Chieko Higashiyama - 4 times - show films
Keiji Sada - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Yasujiro Ozu - 16 times - show films
Wim Wenders - 2 times - show films
Keisuke Kinoshita - 1 times - show films
Yasukiro Ozu - 1 times - show films

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