Ichirō Sugai

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective seeks advice from a seasoned colleague while trying to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.

Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.

Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life.

Ishun is a wealthy but unsympathetic master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.

During a Sunday trip into war-ravaged Tokyo, despairing Yuzo and optimistic Masako look for work and lodging, as well as affordable entertainments to pass the time.

A giant monster that emits a destructive ray from its back attacks Japan and takes on Gamera.

Sugata returns to prove his judo mastery in a match against Western opponents.

World War II film about female volunteer workers at an optics plant who do their best to meet production targets.

A seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients' sexual advances to survive.

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

A young journalist turns to an assassin for help when a team of hired killers comes gunning for her.

An insurance company employee threatens suicide after a massive layoff is announced by the management. The company takes advantage of his threat by turning it into an advertising campaign.

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but overr...

While revelations of his lower class past threaten his job, a school teacher fights for freedom and equality.

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is t...

A dark satire of a contemporary Japan still exhausted from the aftermath of war, hunger, poverty and unemployment. And just as its people are recovering, there is a threat during these Cold War years of renewed militarism and rear...