Yōko Sugi Movies

Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and...

The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in...

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested...

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her...

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved...

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

A woman looks after her father in law.

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a...

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

1949 drama film

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.