Ichirō Sugai Movies

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual...

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with...

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

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

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

A timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is acceptable...

A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.

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

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

Chiyokichi, a young man, hates Cooper, a white man who looks down on the Japanese. Chiyokichi picks Cooper’s pocket and is caught. He is...