Yōko Sugi Movies

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...

Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and...

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...

A woman looks after her father in law.

1960 Japanese movie

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

Love stories of four sisters from a small restaurant in Asakusa.

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur one after another along with the terrifying...

1961 Japanese movie

In post-war Japan, The Second Drawer follows Funada, a devoted company man whose planned family trip is disrupted by the sudden death of his boss....

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...

1949 drama film

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...

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