Kenji Sugawara Movies

A man finds great camaraderie while traveling.

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter...

During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a...

Order of Yakuza

"Eat the Schoolgirl" concerns two young adults who made a dirty work for a yakuza gang by making sadistic rape/snuff films. Both of them are sexually...

Japanese crime film.

A love melodrama about five siblings and the daughter of a businessman.

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...

When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his...

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way...

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

1958 Japanese movie

Japanese movie.

Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...