Movies: Ichirō Sugai

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially greeted by the effusive welcome of his family, spiteful whispers also reach his ear about an adulterous ...

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminat...

1945 Japanese movie...

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves....

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Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the dice and the one who throws them. A year before, Yuriko's father died in mysterious circumstances; sh...

Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who are about to be clobbered by a much larger gang mo...

An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence....

A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member....

1950s Japanese drama....

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate....

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) by Digital MEME in 2007....

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son....

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less....

A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition....

Saga Shiori, who had been held up as a genius writer, runs away to a nightclub to deceive her manager's eyes. She is no longer the genius writer she once was, but is now having a good time with Goro, the man who saved her from running away without mo...

A timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is acceptable......