Ichirō Sugai Movies

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during...

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknamed "The Rising Dragon", who swore never to take...

A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of Mait Guy Akira, who calls people to Ginza Boring...

1950s Japanese drama.

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo...

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 woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...

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

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...

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.

Four criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape. However, one of them receives a bullet during a...

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...