Ichirō Sugai Movies

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

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of Mait Guy Akira, who calls people to Ginza Boring...

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

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

13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

Japanese action film.

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the...

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...

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

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

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

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...

A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.