Direction: Eizô Sugawa

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Eizô Sugawa. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


A Paucity of Flying Dreams

1990 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Eri Ishida · Mariko Kaga · Shinnosuke Furumoto

Synopsis A strange fantasy depicting the love between a gradually rejuvenating woman and a very ordinary middle-aged man.

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The Beast Shall Die

1959 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Hiroshi Koizumi · Eijirô Tono · Nobuo Nakamura

Synopsis A promising post-graduate literature student (Nakadai) is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man. One of the first "lonely hit-man" or "lonely killer.

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Nihonjin no heso

1977 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Mako Midori · Akihiro Miwa · Hajime Hana · Osami Nabe

Synopsis Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.

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Beast Alley

1965 · Movie · 150 min. · Japan

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River of Fireflies

1987 · Movie · 115 min. · Japan

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Yukiyo Toake · Gô Awazu · Takashi Ebata

Synopsis During the summer of 1962, a young Japanese teen--Tatsuo--is worried, like most of his peers, about his entrance examinations to high school. Moreover, he's developed a crush on his female classmate, Eiko.

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Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 55 min. · Japan

Direction Mio Ezaki · Hiroshi Okamoto · Hideo Onchi · Eizô Sugawa

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Saburo Shinoda · Yûsuke Natsu

Synopsis TV serie (1978). 1 season.

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Get 'em All

1960 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Hiroshi Mizuwara · Tatsuya Nakadai · Tetsurô Tanba · Yukiko Shimazaki

Synopsis A gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.

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You Can Succeed, Too

1964 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Ichirô Arishima · Arihiro Fujimura · Mie Hama · Jerry Ito

Synopsis The closest Japanese cinema ever came to the full-blown Broadway style musical, with singing and dancing on the streets of Tokyo, music by avant-garde composer and jazzman Toshiro Mayuzumi, lyrics by renowned poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, and direction by one of...

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