Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

is a 1941 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. Plot The upper-class Toda family celebrates the 69th birthday of their father Shintarō with a commemorative outdoor photoshoot. Unfortunately, shortly after the photo session, the father suffers a fatal heart attack. After his death, his eldest son Shin'ichirō announces that as their father had acted as a guarantor for a company which has gone bankrupt, they must help pay off that company's debts. The family sells off all their late father's properties and antiques, leaving only an old house by the sea. Meanwhile, the mother and the youngest daughter Setsuko go and stay with Shin'ichirō and his wife. The unmarried second brother Shōjirō takes the opportunity to move away from Japan to Tianjin, China (which had been occupied by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese war). The mother and Setsuko disharmonise with Shin'ichirō's wife Kazuko and go to stay with Chizuko, the married eldest sister. However, Setsuko's plans to go out to work are met with vehement objections from Chizuko, who finds the idea disgraceful since they are an upper-class family. Chizuko also clashes with the mother over Chizuko's son, who has been playing truant from school. Instead of accepting Setsuko's second sister Ayako offer to live with her and her husband, Mrs. Toda and Setsuko decide to move out to the unsold dilapidated house by the sea. Ayako and her husband are secretly relieved for not having to take them in. On the first anniversary of the father's death, the family comes together for a ceremonial gathering. Shōjirō arrives in time for the family dinner and is shocked to learn that his mother and Setsuko are staying alone by the sea. He reprimands his brother and his sisters for not doing their part as children and urges them to leave at once, which they do. After dinner, Shōjirō asks his mother and Setsuko to stay with him in Tianjin, to which they agree. Setsuko tries to arrange a marriage between Shōjirō and her friend Tokiko, who has come for a visit, but Shōjirō runs off to the beach before she can get them to meet.