Haruko Sugimura Movies

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

1962 Japanese movie

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...

A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish...

A film commemorating the 25th anniversary of Hibari Misora's performing career. Written by Matsutaro Kawaguchi for Hibari Misora to celebrate her...

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes...

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...

1945 Japanese movie

A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".