Kenji Sugawara Movies

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

Follows five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

A tragic love story set in a hot-spring town.

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by...

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last...

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is...

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

Order of Yakuza

A passionate, righteous journalist, burning with indignation, draws his gun of justice in response to the death of his fellow photographer.

A romantic story about a young medical student and a Japanese dancer who meet while watching a university ice hockey league game, and how they...