Kyoji Sugi Movies

A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.

A state-sponsored film featuring singers who embodied the joys of rural life.

Master swordsman and loyal 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent to investigate an intrigue centering on the Date...

Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fight realistically.

In the third entry into this mega-hit series, Isshin Tasuke, a spirited fishmonger in Edo who looks just like Shogun Iemitsu undergoes a series of...

When Mr. Kurano, a shady Osaka tycoon, had his mistress Yuriko Haruyama run off on him, he hired the bumbling detective Hanawa to track her down....

Baseball comedy.

Bored Hatamoto film #20

Five regulars at “Maxwell,” a cabaret tucked away in the back streets of Ginza—including Chida and Numai—are once again...

A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows, and triumphs.

A young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis.

1962 Japanese movie

Futari no hitomi (二人の瞳, Futari no hitomi, The Eyes of Two People) a.k.a. Girls Hand in Hand (USA title) is a 1952...

On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.

A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his birth father, he travels to Edo to find Shogun...

Prosecutor Ishigami, who had stepped forward to protect the citizens from the Murata family, the town’s power brokers, found himself assigned...

Two thrill seeking young lords sneak out of their castles and travel under the disguise of townsmen.

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos,...

After settling the matter of shogunal succession, the retired Old Lord of Mito finds himself in a sea of trouble when he gets involved in the...