Haruko Sugimura Movies

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him...

When the man who seduced famous painter Otoko Ueno as a teenager–and then wrote a bestselling novel about it–reappears in her life, her...

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...

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

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

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

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

The investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative team to uncover a series of frequent gang robberies...

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

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 moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

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

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large...

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

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.