Movies: Yōko Sugi

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her parents' house in Tokyo with her five-year-old daughter Yoshiko....

A woman looks after her father in law....

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film....

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Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a number of women, including his true love, Inako Arima....

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house ...

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships....

The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the backdrop of the city's dance festival....

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo....

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A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village....

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film....

The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in the United States....

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe as a young policeman it is part crime drama, part social study. Definitely not an undiscovered mast...

The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur one after another along with the terrifying melody of a flute....

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa...

Portmanteau film about young lovers....

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed criminals and almost sees them as family. One day at a workshop some...

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1949 drama film...