Haruko Sugimura Movies

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....

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

1945 Japanese movie

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

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

1945 Japanese movie

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

1945 Japanese movie

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

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

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

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

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

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

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

When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist.

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...