Haruko Sugimura Filmes

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...

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the...

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

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...

Inochi uruwashi

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

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

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

The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes...

"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...

1945 Japanese movie

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

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

1945 Japanese movie

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

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

1945 Japanese movie

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...