Haruko Sugimura Movies

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

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

A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries...

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...

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may...

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...

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

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

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...

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her...

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

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of...

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha...