Tōru Sumikawa

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

1962 Japanese movie

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a...

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.

Strife between competing lumber mills.

Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the...

Orphans who transport stolen goods rebel against the yakuza organization that stole their youth through extortion and violence.

1962 Japanese movie

A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki,...

1962 Japanese movie

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a...

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more...

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest...

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the...

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of...

1962 Japanese movie

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

A counterintelligence film about an American spy who conspires to spread infectious bacteria inside a Japanese factory.

Depicts the bereaved families of soldiers sent to the front.

Twenty years after the father’s death and the mother and child’s separation, when they are reunited, a pistol aimed at the mother glints coldly...