Haruko Sugimura Movies

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

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

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

When the man who seduced famous painter Otoko Ueno as a teenager–and then wrote a bestselling novel about it–reappears in her life, her...

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

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

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Inochi uruwashi

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

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

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...

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....

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

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