Haruko Sugimura Movies

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

1945 Japanese movie

A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".

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...

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

Every day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement agents (jidanya), mediators between the parts and the...

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

Inochi uruwashi

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

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....

A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his...

OSHINO, the beautiful daughter of restaurant owners, is in love with SHIRASAGI the painter. But there is another young man, the son of a moneylender...

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

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.