Ichirō Sugai Movies

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of...

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka...

Even a peaceful married life has its dissatisfactions. Then a female reporter appears, and love takes a complicated turn!

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Second installment of a wartime film trilogy.

Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture, the film depicts people taking on the evil blast...

Japanese drama film.

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

1957 Japanese movie

Surviving fragments of a film by Tomu Uchida.

Japanese crime film.

A mysterious magician with a Japanese mother who came to Nagasaki’s Nankin-machi from the mainland in search of his father’s killer.