Haruko Sugimura Movies

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...

The investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative team to uncover a series of frequent gang robberies...

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

A 1948 Japanese film.

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.

The Glorious Days

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...

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

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

Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attempted surgery and years of struggle, her...

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

1945 Japanese movie

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...

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...

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