Haruko Sugimura Movies

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...

A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their...

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family...

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha...