Yōko Sugi Movies

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

A romantic movie based on Chiyoko Shimakura’s hit song of the same name, in which Shimakura herself starred.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur one after another along with the terrifying...

Film directed by Yasuki Chiba, based on the novel of the same name by Tatsuzou Ishikawa.

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a...

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her...

1949 drama film

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

1961 Japanese movie

The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the...