Haruko Sugimura Movies

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

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....

The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes...

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

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

1945 Japanese movie

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

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

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...

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist.

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

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

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

The investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative team to uncover a series of frequent gang robberies...