Tōru Sumikawa Movies

With his mother’s wishes and a young woman’s prayers in his heart, a spirited young man fights to uphold the honor of college judo.

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

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

A blind little girl searches for her mother.

Yosuke Machida of the Daito Shinpo hears from a boy named Toshi-bo, whom he found on the street, that Toshi-bo’s older sister, Toyo, was...

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...

A story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.

In Ginza Hachō, where violence and lust swirl, sparks fly from iron fists and passion against a backdrop of song and dance.

In 1945, in a Shanghai filled with a palpable sense of unease as the war was still raging, Atsuko Kijima and Ryuji Kudo fell in love and exchanged...

A passionate young man who lives for judo, the innocent girl he adores, and a challenge to the judo boss… A major match where love and life...

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...

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...

Two barbers have fallen for each other, but their fathers are both stubborn, and, on top of that, they’re old rivals from the past.

Sanpei, an innocent sailor with incredible strength, arrives in the big city teeming with social ills carrying a mysterious bag.

Depicts the bereaved families of soldiers sent to the front.

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...