Movies: Kenji Sugawara

  • 1956
    Street of Shame

    Street of Shame (1956)

    Street of Shame

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    The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law....

    Street of Shame
  • 1957
    The Blue Sky Maiden

    The Blue Sky Maiden (1957)

    The Blue Sky Maiden

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    Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was....

    The Blue Sky Maiden
  • 1954
    The Golden Demon

    The Golden Demon (1954)

    The Golden Demon

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    Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a wealthy banker's son. In bitter ...

    The Golden Demon
  • 1969
    New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2

    New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2 (1969)

    New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2

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    Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the dock operator....

    New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
  • 1966
    Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2

    Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2 (1966)

    Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2

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    Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family. When the Soda attacks the Sakaki and double-crosses him, with sword in hand, Hideji...

    Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
  • 1957
    Kodokan Under a Morning Moon

    Kodokan Under a Morning Moon (1957)

    Kodokan Under a Morning Moon

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    The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is used only for self-defense and championed by Sugawara. All of which, comes to a mighty match between Sug...

    Kodokan Under a Morning Moon
  • 1958
    A Grain of Wheat

    A Grain of Wheat (1958)

    A Grain of Wheat

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    The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who watch over them. Co-written by newcomer Shigeki Chiba and Kaneto Shindo, the film was directed by Kozab...

    A Grain of Wheat
  • 1960
    Satan's Sword

    Satan's Sword (1960)

    Satan's Sword

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    The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Ryunosuke Tsukue , a nihilistic sw...

    Satan's Sword
  • 1960
    A Woman's Testament

    A Woman's Testament (1960)

    A Woman's Testament

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    The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince ma...

    A Woman's Testament
  • 1965
    Brutal Tales of Chivalry

    Brutal Tales of Chivalry (1965)

    Brutal Tales of Chivalry

    7.11965HD

    After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa a...

    Brutal Tales of Chivalry
  • 1955
    A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love

    A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love (1955)

    A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love

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    A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa....

    A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
  • 1958
    The Precipice

    The Precipice (1958)

    The Precipice

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    Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works....

    The Precipice
  • 1969
    Gateway to Glory

    Gateway to Glory (1969)

    Gateway to Glory

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    A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy....

    Gateway to Glory
  • 1969
    New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town

    New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town (1969)

    New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town

    61969HD

    Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend....

    New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town
  • 1971
    The Man

    The Man (1971)

    The Man

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    Japanese movie....

    The Man
  • 1959
    Etajima, the Naval Academy

    Etajima, the Naval Academy (1959)

    Etajima, the Naval Academy

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    The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbear...

    Etajima, the Naval Academy
  • 1997
    Eat the Schoolgirl: Osaka Telephone Club

    Eat the Schoolgirl: Osaka Telephone Club (1997)

    Eat the Schoolgirl: Osaka Telephone Club

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    "Eat the Schoolgirl" concerns two young adults who made a dirty work for a yakuza gang by making sadistic rape/snuff films. Both of them are sexually obsessed; one is addicted to telephone sex whilst the other can only function sexually, whilst seein...

    Eat the Schoolgirl: Osaka Telephone Club
  • 1958
    Chance Meeting

    Chance Meeting (1958)

    Chance Meeting

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    Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her pi...

    Chance Meeting
  • 1952
    Shi no machi wo nogarete

    Shi no machi wo nogarete (1952)

    Shi no machi wo nogarete

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    Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War....

    Shi no machi wo nogarete
  • 1966
    Dash to the Sun

    Dash to the Sun (1966)

    Dash to the Sun

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    A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original ...

    Dash to the Sun