Cast: Yôko Sugi

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Yumeji Tsukioka · Ryoji Hayama · Junkichi Orimoto · Hiroko Kawasaki

Plot Fumiko (Tsukioka Yurneji) is married to a taciturn and unsympathetic husband and has two children. She seems like a devoted and dutiful wife, but is dissatisfied with her situation. Her...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Setsuko Hara · Yôko Sugi · Ken Uehara · Sô Yamamura

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ken Uehara · Setsuko Hara · Yukiko Shimazaki · Yôko Sugi

Plot Set shortly after World War II, Repast is about a struggling marriage between salaryman Hatsunosuke and his wife Michiyo. It focuses on the emotional crisis of the bored housewife. The...

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Chishu Ryu · Hisako Yamane · Yôko Sugi · Mie Kitahara

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Toshirô Mifune · Keiju Kobayashi · Akemi Negishi

Plot A young married woman wants to raise enough money to open her own cafe. She gets a loan to fulfill her dream. The arrival of her husband's brother will disrupt...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ken Uehara · Yôko Sugi · Rentarô Mikuni · Keiju Kobayashi

Plot Husband and Wife centers on the problems of young married life that, exacerbated by economic circumstances, can erupt into a full-scale breakup. Ken Uehara and Yoko Sugi star as the...

Direction Kayo Hatta

Cast Youki Kudoh · Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa · Tamlyn Tomita · Akira Takayama

Plot After 16-year-old Riyo travels all the way from Japan to a Hawaiian sugarcane plantation for an arranged marriage, she is shocked to discover that Matsuji, her husband-to-be, is 43 years...

Direction Seiji Hisamatsu

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Yôko Sugi · Kyôko Kagawa · Hisao Toake

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akira Takarada · Momoko Kôchi · Ken Uehara · Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Setsuko Hara · Ryo Ikebe · Michiyo Kogure · Yôko Sugi

Plot In an all-girls school in postwar Japan, a group of students harass a new girl who's been seen outside school with a boy. The teacher, a young modern woman, scolds...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Yukiko Shimazaki · Kazuo Masubuchi · Chieko Nakakita · Keiju Kobayashi

Plot Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin...

Direction Masahiro Makino · Eisuke Takizawa

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi · Hajime Izu · Tatsuo Saito

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Jun Tazaki · Michitaro Mizushima · Yôko Sugi

Plot This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe as a young policeman it is part...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Yôko Sugi · Yukiko Shimazaki · Hiroshi Koizumi · Hajime Izu

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Sanae Takasugi · Ryo Ikebe · Yôko Sugi

Direction Kajirô Yamamoto

Cast Mariko Okada · Keiju Kobayashi · Hiroshi Koizumi · Yôko Sugi

Plot Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking care of the land)--...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Minoru Chiaki · Kamatari Fujiwara · Ryo Ikebe · Choko Iida

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Setsuko Hara · Ryo Ikebe · Michiyo Kogure · Yôko Sugi

Plot In an all-girls school in postwar Japan, a group of students harass a new girl who's been seen outside school with a boy. The teacher, a young modern woman, scolds...

Direction Masanori Kakei · Mikio Naruse · Hideo Suzuki

Cast Kyoko Aoyama · Kamatari Fujiwara · Toshiyasu Hiyoshi · Takashi Ito

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Asami Kuji · Daisuke Kato · Keiju Kobayashi