Ichirō Sugai Movies

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during...

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

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

1962 Japanese movie

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been...

1962 Japanese movie

Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

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...

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful...

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

A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic...

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

Surviving fragments of a film by Tomu Uchida.

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

1962 Japanese movie