Mitsuo Wakasugi

Autumn Interlude (1976)

The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to marry a stranger by her parent. She ran away from her hometown and arrived at Tokyo in search of her love one ...

The Izu Dancer (1974)

While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling performers, and he tags along with them on their journeys. ...

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte (1972)

I Love The Sun (1966)

A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama. ...

A Modern Samurai Village (1963)

Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had imagined is in a slum area called Samurai Village, a little settlement, where people live from hand to mouth. To m ...

Mahiru no yūkai (1961)

A suspense drama directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi. Students, gangsters and other young people who couldn't make money were gathering and negotiating at a coffee shop about this. They were told that if you kidnap a child from a rich family, search for him/her, t ...

Otona to kodomo no ainoko dai (1961)

The Diary of a Police Officer: The Slammer Is Full (1961)

A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of eight policemen solve a series of unusual cases, ranging from extortion, to drunken fathers, to corruption and even the persecution of a man who claims to be ...

Girl in the Glass (1960)

This film depicts the pure love between a girl raised by a strict father and a young man working in a small factory to support his family. The friendship that had blossomed between them eventually grew into love. Yet the purer it was, the more it seemed d ...

Teenage Wolf (1960)

In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl! A gloomy portrait of youth, in which distorted energy explodes! A unique social drama that acutely depicts the psychological conflict bubbling in ...

Kikenna onna (1959)

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper. ...

Shadow of Intimidation (1959)

Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts and disperse. However, one by one, the henchmen die. The last survivor, Sima Kyuhei, gets a call and is infor ...

Love with an Alien (1958)

A romantic melodrama about a handsome Korean composer who falls for a Hong Kong singer ...

Skinny and Fatty (1958)

Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends. ...

The Lady of Mystery (1957)

Spies, Military Documents and Traitors. ...

Joshiryōsai (1957)

Ishigassen (1955)

Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a stone battle took place. Takemaru, the only son of the priesthood of Tada Shrine, was weak and was always ...

Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to (1952)

Japanese film. ...

Rashomon (1950)

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife. ...

Goblin Courier (1949)

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune. ...

A Testimony as an Image (2002)

In this documentary, script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, who first worked with Akira Kurosawa on RASHOMON, catches up with many members of the crew, including cowriter Shinobu Hashimoto and assistant director Tokuzo Tanaka. They talk about the screenplay's ev ...