Ichirō Sugai Movies

1962 Japanese movie

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during...

1962 Japanese movie

A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic...

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.

Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but also helps one of the more decent hoodlums find...

Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in a fight with villains trying to seize the...

1962 Japanese movie

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

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Nonaka Tetsugoro, a substitute for the Aoi group, held a flower party to celebrate the complete recovery of his boss. However, three rival bosses,...

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

1945 Japanese movie

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One...