Haruko Sugimura Movies

1962 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...

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

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist.

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

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

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

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

The investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative team to uncover a series of frequent gang robberies...

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

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

In Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in...

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

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

1945 Japanese movie