Haruko Sugimura Movies

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their...

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha...

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...

In Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in...