Rieko Sumi Movies

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Kokubu Jiro is the captain of his university's Kendo team. Often standoffish, mild, stoic and minimalist, Kokubu is a mystery to those who know him....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Utsui

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.

Genre: Music

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Japanese film.

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin....

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

A group of five law enforcers search Edo for a missing sword.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love...

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Cast: Jiro Tamiya

Akiko lives with her brother Toshio in suburban Tokyo working in different companies. One day, Toshio loses 500,000 yen which he was holding for his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Kano

A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however. For she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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Cast: Masao Wakahara

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miwa Takada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Utsui

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Also known as "History of a Man’s Face" and "By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him" . Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him...

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Cast: Shūji Sano

Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Makoto Satō

Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keizô Kawasaki

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a...

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Cast: Eijirō Yanagi

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent...

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Cast: Rieko Sumi

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Joji Takagi

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Akiko Wada

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Directed by Edagawa Hiroshi, this film stars Funakoshi Eiji and Kawakami Yasuko.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Ginpei, in an act of desperation to get money for his gravely ill mother, was laughed at and ended up fighting with the companions of the castle...

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into...

Genre: Action

Cast: Meiko Kaji

1958 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keizô Kawasaki

A young man steals money for a cabaret singer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rieko Sumi

1958 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa