Ichirō Sugai Movies

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...

The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the...

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

1962 Japanese movie

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. First installment of a wartime film trilogy.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film.

Set in post-WWII Osaka, a young woman trapped working in a sordid lodging house run by her abusive stepfather falls for a visiting criminal in hopes...

Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of...

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

1962 Japanese movie

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Second installment of a wartime film trilogy.

As Noriko becomes widowed, her parents-in-law take her daughter Mitsuko, and Noriko moves to Shanghai to earn money to repay the debt that piled up...

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the...