Haruko Sugimura Movies

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

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

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...

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

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

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

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

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...

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

1962 Japanese movie

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

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

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

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