Haruko Sugimura Movies

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

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

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...

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

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...

A sequel to Geisha Konatsu (1954).

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

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...

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...

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

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

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

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

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...

A silk mill worker living through a dark and twisted youth… What is chastity? A powerful work that speaks to society through the anguished...