Based on actual events, taken from a woman doctor’s story of life in a remote leper colony. Read More »
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Morning for the Osone Family AKA Ôsone-ke no ashita (1946) Keisuke Kinoshita, Haruko Sugimura, Toshinosuke Nagao, Shin Tokudaiji
Kinoshita’s first film after the end of World War II is a wrenching, superbly wrought Read More »
Late Chrysanthemums AKA Bangiku (1954) Mikio Naruse, Haruko Sugimura, Ken Uehara, Sadako Sawamura
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Read More »
The Crowded Train AKA Manin densha (1957) Kon Ichikawa, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura
Tamio Moroi graduates from a prestigious university and obtains a job at the Camel Brewery in a distant town. Read More »
The Descendants of Taro Urashima AKA Urashima Tarô no kôei (1946) Mikio Naruse, Susumu Fujita, Nobuo Nakamura, Haruko Sugimura
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier Read More »
Mother AKA Haha (1963) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Haruko Sugimura, Homizu Aratani
Tamiko is a divorced mother with a seriously ill son, struggling to save him and give both a sense of their existence. Read More »
The Conspirator (1961) Daisuke Itô, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Haruko Sugimura, Chiyonosuke Azuma, Action, Drama
Two hostile clans had attained an artificial understanding which includes the union of someone from every family. Read More »
Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki / She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) Keisuke Kinoshita, Noriko Arita, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Drama, Romance
An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies (or Wild Chrysanthemums, as they are described in the title, or starworts, as they are referred to in the subtitles), and thinks back to when he was fifteen. Read More »
Ukikusa / Floating Weeds (1959) Yasujirô Ozu, Ganjirô Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Haruko Sugimura, Drama
A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame Oyoshi and their son Kiyoshi, even though Kiyoshi believes Komajuro is his uncle. The leading actress Sumiko is jealous and so, in order to humiliate the master, persuades the younger actress Kayo to seduce Kiyoshi.
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