Ichirō Sugai Movies

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were oppressed...

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa...

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes popu...

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his hea...

A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual b...

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by "bandits."

During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro),a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor Inaga...

A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house.

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."

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

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphane...

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own ad...

A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.

A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo,...

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.