Haruko Sugimura Movies

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

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.

Inochi uruwashi

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

The Glorious Days

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

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

Every day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement agents (jidanya), mediators between the parts and the...

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish...