Less than two years away from his death, Yasujiro Ozu made one of his most honest films about family and age, concerning various sisters (including Setsuko Hara and Yoko Tsukasa, from “Late Autumn”) struggling to keep their elderly, wandering father tied down as they get their own lives in order. The father, played by Ganjiro Nakamura, is a silly creation, stealing off to an old mistress from the war days who humors him with tales of a daughter he thinks is his, while the children are frustrated and sympathetically portrayed, suggesting that as his life grew shorter, from “Tokyo Twilight” in ’57 on, Ozu began to favor youth over age, capturing that which had personally left him many years ago.