Movies: Tokuko Sugiyama

  • 1959
    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    8.11959HD

    After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his...

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • 1968
    Horus: Prince of the Sun

    Horus: Prince of the Sun (1968)

    Horus: Prince of the Sun

    6.31968HD

    Young Horus lives in a mythical Scandinavia of the Iron Age. Recovering the stolen Sword of the Sun from a rock giant, he learns he must travel to the lands of his ancestors, encountering the beautiful but enigmatic Hilda as his journey leads to a se...

    Horus: Prince of the Sun
  • 1996
    Village of Dreams

    Village of Dreams (1996)

    Village of Dreams

    6.31996HD

    Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysteri...

    Village of Dreams
  • 1990
    Tales of a Golden Geisha

    Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990)

    Tales of a Golden Geisha

    6.41990HD

    Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundrels who don’t deserve it....

    Tales of a Golden Geisha
  • 1987
    A Taxing Woman

    A Taxing Woman (1987)

    A Taxing Woman

    6.81987HD

    Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his a...

    A Taxing Woman
  • 1980
    A Distant Cry from Spring

    A Distant Cry from Spring (1980)

    A Distant Cry from Spring

    7.31980HD

    The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the a...

    A Distant Cry from Spring
  • 1980
    Twelve Months

    Twelve Months (1980)

    Twelve Months

    6.71980HD

    A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she does not like, to look for the flowers in a cold forest, knowing the task will be impossible for her. ...

    Twelve Months
  • 1977
    The Wild Swans

    The Wild Swans (1977)

    The Wild Swans

    6.61977HD

    A young girl must spend six years making sweatshirts out of poison ivy in order to save her six brothers which have been turned into swans by an evil sorceress....

    The Wild Swans
  • 1989
    Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso

    Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso (1989)

    Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso

    01989HD

    A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee....

    Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
  • 1975
    Great Jailbreak

    Great Jailbreak (1975)

    Great Jailbreak

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    A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo. The friendship between two men on death row, a fleeting love affair with a travel...

    Great Jailbreak
  • 1985
    Tora-san, the Go-Between

    Tora-san, the Go-Between (1985)

    Tora-san, the Go-Between

    6.51985HD

    In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-...

    Tora-san, the Go-Between
  • 1978
    White-haired Demon

    White-haired Demon (1978)

    White-haired Demon

    01978HD

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    White-haired Demon
  • 1962
    Foundry Town

    Foundry Town (1962)

    Foundry Town

    7.61962HD

    Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education....

    Foundry Town
  • 1986
    Metamorphosis

    Metamorphosis (1986)

    Metamorphosis

    5.21986HD

    A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine....

    Metamorphosis
  • 1976
    The Village

    The Village (1976)

    The Village

    6.71976HD

    This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and, being that they are farmers and always busy and not rich, question the wisdom and feasibility of such...

    The Village
  • 1970
    Tora-san's Runaway

    Tora-san's Runaway (1970)

    Tora-san's Runaway

    7.81970HD

    After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job....

    Tora-san's Runaway
  • 1956
    The Forest Is Alive

    The Forest Is Alive (1956)

    The Forest Is Alive

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    Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"...

    The Forest Is Alive
  • 1981
    Tora-san's Promise

    Tora-san's Promise (1981)

    Tora-san's Promise

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    Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all his ex-classmates, he resumes his travels. In Kyushu he meets an outspoken 18-year-old girl who become...

    Tora-san's Promise
  • 1974
    Kobayashi Takiji

    Kobayashi Takiji (1974)

    Kobayashi Takiji

    01974HD

    A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)...

    Kobayashi Takiji
  • 1986
    Mofuku no niau hitozuma futari

    Mofuku no niau hitozuma futari (1986)

    Mofuku no niau hitozuma futari

    01986HD

    Yuki Kimura, a company president's secretary, agrees to marry his son Yutaka on the president's recommendation. When Yutaka breaks up with his lover, a hostess, she implies she's going to commit suicide. In a panic to get to her quickly, Yutaka punch...

    Mofuku no niau hitozuma futari