Haruko Sugimura Movies

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

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a...

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

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

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

1945 Japanese movie

The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her.

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

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

1945 Japanese movie

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...

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

1945 Japanese movie

Domoto Kozue, a gifted young ikebana artist, shoulders the legacy of her late father’s school while navigating the pressures of family...