Haruko Sugimura Movies

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

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.

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...

The Glorious Days

A sequel to Geisha Konatsu (1954).

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

1962 Japanese movie

In Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in...

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

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

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

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

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