Kan Sugi

The Symbol of a Man (1963)

A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict. ...

Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1 (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Ren'ai Zubari Kōza (1961)

A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku". ...

Vampire Bride (1960)

Kind-hearted girl next door beauty (Junko Ikeuchi) turns the heads of all the handsome boys, so three other models decide to push her off the nearest cliff. But her aunt is a witch who grants her monstrous powers to transform into a beast and get her reven ...

The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond (1960)

Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not want to let them go. Once upon a time, over a century ago, there had been a crime, whose shadow still hovers ...

Haunted Cave (1959)

The treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred years before. Yumi Aoyama is the only person who knows the location, but her family dies one after another through curious incidents, as if the family were u ...

The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959)

This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend which tells of a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power. ...

Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger (1959)

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called "Kageboshi" (Shadow Avenger), will fight for the common folk, robbing the rich so the people will have rice. ...

The Lady Vampire (1959)

Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro ...

Black Cat Mansion (1958)

The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her. ...

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War (1958)

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers (1956)

A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's Godzilla series by providing the screenplays/stories for the majority of the original Showa films. ...

Bridge of Japan (1956)

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film present ...

The Tale of Jiro (1955)

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his mother. ...

Seven Samurai (1954)

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with ...

Madam of the first class and husband of the third class (1954)

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke. ...

Koina no Ginpei (1954)

1954 Japanese movie ...

Mole Alley (1953)

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writ ...

Forty-Eight Man (1952)

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki ...

Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth (1952)

Period film about the legendary detective Umon ...

Stolen Love (1951)

Romantic melodrama ...

Yasubei Nakayama (1951)

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura ...

A Mother's Love (1950)

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives. ...

Snow-Flake (1950)

Mr. Shosuke Ohara (1949)

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the brink of bankruptcy. Around town he is better known by his nickname Mr. Shosuke Ohara. ...

Kekkon Sanjûshi (1949)

Living Image (1948)

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period. ...

This Happy Life (1944)

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less. ...

Ongaku dai-shingun (1943)

A 1943 film. ...

The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday (1941)

Feature film. ...