Ichirō Sugai

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is ...

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its ...

In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, ...

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find ...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan’s navy ...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to ...

During the Edo Period, a noblewoman’s banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries ...

A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujutsu bravado for discipline and humility. As ...