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Tag Archives: Ichirô Sugai
Satan’s Town / Akuma no machi (1956) Seijun Suzuki, Seizaburô Kawazu, Ichirô Sugai, Azusa Yumi
A notorious murderer Oba escapes from jail. Hayasaki, the Oba’s right hand Read More »
Spring on Leper’s Island / Kojima no haru (1940) Shirô Toyoda, Shizue Natsukawa, Ichirô Sugai, Haruko Sugimura
Based on actual events, taken from a woman doctor’s story of life in a remote leper colony. Read More »
Story of a Beloved Wife / Aisai monogatari (1951) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Jûkichi Uno, Ichirô Sugai
Shindo’s directorial debut is the fictionalized account of the death of his first wife. Read More »
The Water Magician AKA Taki no shiraito (1933) Kenji Mizoguchi, Takuaki Seiryô, Tokihiko Okada, Ichirô Sugai, Bontarô Miake
Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. Read More »
The Life of Oharu AKA Saikaku Ichidai Onna (1952) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
A fifty-year-old prostitute, no longer able to attract men, looks back on her sad life. Read More »
Mother Never Dies / Haha wa Shinazu (1942) Mikio Naruse, Takako Irie, Yukiko Todoroki, Ichirô Sugai
The story begins in 1929 with Sugai (Sugai Ichiro) losing his job in the stock- market crash. Read More »
The Most Beautiful AKA Ichiban utsukushiku (1944) Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Shimura, Sôji Kiyokawa, Ichirô Sugai
During World War II, the management of a war industry of optical instruments for weapons requests Read More »
Cat Girls Gamblers / Toba no mesu neko (1965) Hiroshi Noguchi, Yumiko Nogawa, Hideaki Nitani, Ichirô Sugai
After seeing her father being murdered over a game of dice, Yukiko decides to take revenge. Read More »