Haruko Sugimura Movies

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was...

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the...

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

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

1962 Japanese movie

Drama about a young nurse who falls in love with a disabled soldier, and based a true story.

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

1945 Japanese movie

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

A silk mill worker living through a dark and twisted youth… What is chastity? A powerful work that speaks to society through the anguished...

OSHINO, the beautiful daughter of restaurant owners, is in love with SHIRASAGI the painter. But there is another young man, the son of a moneylender...

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.

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...