Haruko Sugimura Movies

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

The Glorious Days

"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...

1962 Japanese movie

A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".

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

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

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

1945 Japanese movie

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...

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

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

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

OSHINO, the beautiful daughter of restaurant owners, is in love with SHIRASAGI the painter. But there is another young man, the son of a moneylender...

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

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

1945 Japanese movie