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.

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.

1958 film by Yasujiro Ozu

1949 film by Yasujiro Ozu

1962 Japanese film by Yasujiri Ozu

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.