Ichirō Sugai Movies

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...

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the...

The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Bin Tsuzuki...

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

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

A side show snake man who dreams of becoming a drummer tries to save a blind flower girl.

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

Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in a fight with villains trying to seize the...

A pre-war sports movie by director Tomu Uchida. This story is set at the Waseda-Keio regatta. This was shot at the banks of the Sumida River, where...

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

The first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji...

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

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

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

The story is set in a rural village, where the village mayor gives a speech at the local community center as a theater troupe visits the village for...

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been...

Japanese action film.

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.