Haruko Sugimura Movies

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the...

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

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

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.

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

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was...

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

A silk mill worker living through a dark and twisted youth… What is chastity? A powerful work that speaks to society through the anguished...

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

1945 Japanese movie

1945 Japanese movie

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

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