Tokuko Sugiyama Movies

Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their...

Genre: Family

Cast: Mieko Harada

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of...

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Cast: Komaki Kurihara

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

A young girl must spend six years making sweatshirts out of poison ivy in order to save her six brothers which have been turned into swans by an evil...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiko Masuyama

Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.

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Cast: Keiko Takahashi

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"

Genre: Family

Cast: Teruko Kishi

This is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first and last episodes of the tv show bridged by an edit...

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Cast: 露木茂

A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ai Kanzaki

A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)

Genre: History

Cast: Kei Yamamoto

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Young Horus lives in a mythical Scandinavia of the Iron Age. Recovering the stolen Sword of the Sun from a rock giant, he learns he must travel to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hisako Ôkata

This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Yuki Kimura, a company president's secretary, agrees to marry his son Yutaka on the president's recommendation. When Yutaka breaks up with his lover,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wakiko Kano

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koichi Sato

In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tatsuya Fuji

One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Horror

Cast: Atsuo Nakamura