Ichirō Sugai Movies

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to saving the Kajima’s lucrative lumber business.

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...

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a...

1950s Japanese drama.

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...

A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.

It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His...

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

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...

After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sent by his wife's cell and Kenmochi detective of...

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house. Considered a lost film.

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.