Naoki Sugiura

Drugstore Girl (2004)

Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train ("destination anywhere, east or west, she don't care") and ends up in a town named Masao in Tokyo's remote suburbs. There, she gets a par ...

Chûshingura 1/47 (2001)

During Japan's feudal period, a noble lord was treacherously killed by a rival. His 47 samurai retainers took their revenge on their master's killer after scattering into society for several years, so as not to be detected. Having completed their task, all ...

Keiho (1999)

The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting dimini ...

A Tale of Young Elopement (1987)

A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man. ...

Deaths in Tokimeki (1984)

Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of a religious cult. ...

A Madcap Corporation (1983)

A yakuza family goes into show business. ...

Lullaby of Death (1982)

Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother's suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for revenge. All intertwined with the investigation of journalists into local murders, the manipulations of a palmist k ...

Truck Rascals in Fever Heat (1976)

The fourth film of the "Truck Yaro" series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, "Momojiro" and "Kinzo," who travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. Momojiro goes to Shikoku this time, and he falls in love with a beautiful designer n ...

Onna no Kyūka (1974)

It depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo. ...

Kill or Be Killed (1966)

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin. ...

Nerves for Victory (1966)

A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother. ...

The Bullet and the Horse (1966)

A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to a neighboring landowner and wants to use the convicts to seize his ranch. The rancher does not know, however, that he had years before killed the parents o ...

Prison Walls of Abashiri 4 (1965)

A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a few honest dollars with which to bail a friend out of jail. ...

Prison Walls of Abashiri 3 (1965)

Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a past debt. Trouble brews when the rival gang that was responsible for sending him to prison learns of his ret ...

Vermin (1965)

A sexy thriller from Hideo Sekigawa ...

A Charming Devil (1965)

Movie adaptation of the TV series. ...

Sex Peddlers (1965)

The "Nighttime Youth Series" vividly depicts the lives of men and women consumed by lust and desire in the nighttime entertainment districts of a neon-lit metropolis. The first installment, "The Pimp," portrays the life of a yakuza who makes a living as a ...

Storm Party (1964)

Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop. ...

The Shogun's Vault (1964)

Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's vault. A tough fighter, he has to show his ability in order to keep from getting himself killed by the prisoners ...

An Impudent Man 2 (1964)

An Outlaw (1964)

Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal. ...

Night Scandal in Japan (1964)

The sexworker who works in Turkish baths plans to make her fortune on the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her boyfriend. However, her plans are turned upside down by the arrival of her half-sister, and her boyfriends unfaithfulness. ...

Pale Flower (1964)

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling. ...

An Impudent Man (1964)

Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Kirihito, under his wing. ...

Asakusa no kyōkaku (1963)

Sonny Chiba is a young gambler on the run. He pretends to be an innocent student, and is taken in by an honorable Yakuza in Tokyo's Asakusa district. ...

Judo Life (1963)

Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judoka Shiro Saigo (Chiba), the second student of judo founder Jigoro Kano (Naoki Sugiura). Akira Kurosawa's Sanshiro Sugata is based on the same character and ...

Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers (1963)

A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop. ...

Eleven Gangsters (1963)

Two men head a team who steal a factory payroll valued at 500 million yen. Then a hoodlum gang goes after the team for the money. ...

The Body (1962)

The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute. ...

Taiyō Sensei Seishunki (1962)

Movie directed by Kunio Matoi ...

Otoko no Uta (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Kanbi no ware koso wa ittō shain (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

A Roaring Trade (1962)

The Estuary (1961)

Hikkoshi yatsure (1961)

Manao Horiuchi movie ...

Door of Flowers (1961)

Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now fallen on hard times. Tamiko wants to marry her boyfriend Sanpei, an aspiring composer, but her father wants her to marry a young company president. ...

Women of Tokyo (1961)

Incidental Murders (1961)

The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and Sanko are unaware that Tatsuko is the heiress to a fortune. Two strong-arm brothers, Kosaka and Takeshi, learn of her identity and join the gang ...

Internees of Kampili (1960)

In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied women and children interned in camp Kampili. Kampili is located some ten kilometers outside Macassar on the ...

Goodbye to Glory (1960)

A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country. ...

Hot Corner Murder (1960)

Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game. ...

Pineapple Butai (1959)

The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s. ...

Umi no Chizu (1959)

Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant scholarly student, also has feelings for Akiko. During the summer vacation, Akiko thought she was enjoying the j ...

High Teen (1959)

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when put in ...

Tomorrow's Sun (1959)

Shochiku's up-and-coming stars take the stage in a series of short skits parodying popular films of the time. ...

The Days of Evil Women (1958)

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances. ...

Confronting Fear (1958)

Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his opponent because he could not stand the fight. He is being released from prison, where he was imprisoned on charges of causing bodily harm. He meets his younger bro ...

Rusty Knife (1958)

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city c ...

I Am Waiting (1957)

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer. ...