Yōko Sugi Movies

1960 Japanese movie

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...

The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in...

Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his...

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her...

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

1949 drama film

A woman looks after her father in law.

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a...

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the...