Isn't Life Disappointing?

By: Acerk21

-Famous scene from Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story.

The following films are comprised of characters that share the same negative outlook on life:

(In no particular order)

• 01
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 02
  Make Way for Tomorrow
  Leo McCarey
• 03
  Il posto
  Ermanno Olmi
• 04
  The Lower Depths
  Akira Kurosawa
• 05
  All About Lily Chou-Chou
  Shunji Iwai
• 06
  Nobody Knows
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 07
  Ran
  Akira Kurosawa
• 08
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 09
  Bicycle Thieves
  Vittorio De Sica
• 10
  When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
  Mikio Naruse
• 11
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 12
  Grave of the Fireflies
  Isao Takahata
• 13
  Au revoir les enfants
  Louis Malle
• 14
  Lilya 4-ever
  Lukas Moodysson
• 15
  Ballad of a Soldier
  Grigori Chukhrai
• 16
  Tokyo Twilight
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 17
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 18
  Umberto D.
  Vittorio De Sica
• 19
  The Good Earth
  Sidney Franklin
• 20
  The Fire Within
  Louis Malle
• 21
  Nights of Cabiria
  Federico Fellini
• 22
  Dancer in the Dark
  Lars von Trier
• 23
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 24
  Wild Strawberries
  Ingmar Bergman
• 25
  Memories of Matsuko
  Tetsuya Nakashima
• 26
  Raise the Red Lantern
  Zhang Yimou
• 27
  I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  Mervyn LeRoy
• 28
  A Brief Vacation
  Vittorio De Sica
• 29
  Black Rain
  Ridley Scott
• 30
  Water
  Deepa Mehta
• 31
  A Place in the Sun
  George Stevens
• 32
  Room at the Top
  Jack Clayton
• 33
  Late Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 34
  Secret Sunshine
  Lee Chang-dong
• 35
  Port of Shadows
  Marcel Carné
• 36
  Strawberry Shortcakes
  Hitoshi Yazaki
• 37
  Caged
  John Cromwell
• 38
  Interiors
  Woody Allen
• 39
  The Deer Hunter
  Michael Cimino
• 40
  Seconds
  John Frankenheimer
• 41
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 42
  The Insect Woman
  Shôhei Imamura
• 43
  Floating Clouds
  Mikio Naruse
• 44
  To Live
  Zhang Yimou
• 45
  The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  Robert Ellis Miller
• 46
  Dodes'ka-den
  Akira Kurosawa
• 47
  Splendor in the Grass
  Elia Kazan
• 48
  The Purple Rose of Cairo
  Woody Allen
• 49
  Maborosi
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 50
  The Mortal Storm
  Frank Borzage
• 51
  Atonement
  Joe Wright
• 52
  Kitty Foyle
  Sam Wood
• 53
  Summer Palace
  Lou Ye
• 54
  I Want to Live!
  Robert Wise
• 55
  The Sea Inside
  Alejandro Amenábar
• 56
  The Entertainer
  Tony Richardson
• 57
  They Live by Night
  Nicholas Ray
• 58
  A Star Is Born
  George Cukor
• 59
  The Virgin Suicides
  Sofia Coppola
• 60
  Never Let Me Go
  Mark Romanek
• 61
  Ju Dou
  Zhang Yimou
• 62
  The Heiress
  William Wyler
• 63
  Dogville
  Lars von Trier
• 64
  Ikiru
  Akira Kurosawa
• 65
  The Wrestler
  Darren Aronofsky
• 66
  Requiem for a Dream
  Darren Aronofsky
• 67
  Eureka
  Shinji Aoyama
• 68
  Fires on the Plain
  Kon Ichikawa
• 69
  Letter from an Unknown Woman
  Max Ophüls
• 70
  Last Life in the Universe
  Pen-ek Ratanaruang
• 71
  Bad Guy
  Kim Ki-duk
• 72
  Permanent Record
  Marisa Silver
• 73
  Confessions
  Tetsuya Nakashima
• 74
  Tokyo Sonata
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• 75
  Madame Bovary
  Vincente Minnelli