Ichirō Sugai Movies

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.

During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor...

A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

1962 Japanese movie

A mysterious magician with a Japanese mother who came to Nagasaki’s Nankin-machi from the mainland in search of his father’s killer.

Having left his hometown, Shinichi Sakashita was searching for an agency where his senior colleague worked, hoping to find him a job. However, the...

The story is set in a rural village, where the village mayor gives a speech at the local community center as a theater troupe visits the village for...

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film.

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the...

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

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the...