Haruko Sugimura Movies

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of...

1962 Japanese movie

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

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

A 1948 Japanese film.

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

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

Every day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement agents (jidanya), mediators between the parts and the...

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist.

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

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...

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

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

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...