Kyoji Sugi Movies

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

One of Japan's most enduring stories is the true-life yakuza boss Jirocho of Shimizu and his gang as they took over the Tokaido Highroad and went on...

1954 Japanese movie

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

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

1947 Japanese movie

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

Fourth film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.

Revenge breeds revenge. Ikuta Denpachiro, the martial arts instructor of the Honda family in Koriyama, lost a fight to the young samurai Enjo...

2nd film in the Eight Brave Brothers trilogy

A two-part series of ninjutsu films directed by Masahiko Izawa, director of Yagyu Bugeichou (1961), based on an original scenario by Yasuo Yokoyama.

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

The story opens in October of 1624 when the newly appointed Shogun Iemitsu visits the famed Kan-ei temple. On his way the procession is disrupted...

A hobo exposes the misdeeds of a new yakuza.

A tryst between the young warrior Hagiwara Shinzaburo and beautiful Otsuyu is discovered, and the shamed Otsuyu commits suicide with her maid. Their...

1962 Japanese movie