Haruko Sugimura Movies

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life d...

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...

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 i...

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukic...

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...

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

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was br...

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mis...

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of...

1962 Japanese movie

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portra...

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of...

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

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...

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