Yōko Sugi Movies

Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and...

The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in...

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested...

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved...

Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his...

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

A woman looks after her father in law.

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

Portmanteau film about young lovers.