Kyoji Sugi Movies

A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos,...

1960 Toei film

The long-awaited Hakkenshi arrive at Takita Castle, which is saddened by successive defeats.

A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows, and triumphs.

A portrait of a man trying to become an artist in order to escape from his life as a miserable peasant due to severe annual tribute during the reign...

Bored Hatamoto film #20

1956 movie from Japan

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the...

A village samurai with money, power and great masculinity goes to the flourishing city of Edo to have some fun and practice. And here he is attacked...

A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

1954 Japanese movie

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...