Ichirō Sugai Movies

A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Second installment of a wartime film trilogy.

A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.

1963 Toei film

Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying...

Japanese action film.

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

A young yakuza just released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, a police inspector determined to clean up the corruption in his own hometown,...

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film.

A sailor tries to help his younger brother, a horse-racing jockey, escape from the yakuza after double crossing them in a fixing scam. Seijun...

1962 Japanese movie

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a...

Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped and fell to his death, he had felt responsible...