Haruko Sugimura Movies

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish...

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

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

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

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

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Inochi uruwashi

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.

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

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

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...

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

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...

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