Kenji Sugawara — Actor (19)
The Sentimental Idiot (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
人情馬鹿
director: Hiroshi Shimizu actor: Rieko Sumi / Kenji Sugawara
other title: O Idiota Sentimental / 人情馬鹿
Performing every night for an audience of male admirers, cabaret singer Yuri captures the attention of Yoshio Tsugawa, a motorcycle salesman who becomes hopelessly enchanted by the unattainable star. In his desperation to win her favor, Yoshio deceives his own customers to support Yuri’s glamorous lifestyle, ultimately ending up imprisoned for embezzlement.
A Man's World (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
男の世界
other title: 男の世界 / A Man′s World
Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now Tadao returned from Canada and Gang member wonder if he will do revenge for her death…
Goodbye, Hello (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
あなたと私の合言葉 さようなら、今日は
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Ayako Wakao / Shin Saburi
other title: あなたと私の合言葉 さようなら、今日は
Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in life and are not ready for marriage. Their families think differently and strive to arrange their personal happiness.
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2 (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
昭和残侠伝 唐獅子牡丹
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Ken Takakura / Yoshiko Mita
other title: 昭和残侠伝 唐獅子牡丹 / Contemporary Tales Of Chivalry 2
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, Hidejiro seeks brutal retribution.
The Precipice (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
氷壁
other title: 氷壁
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.
Etajima, the Naval Academy (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
海軍兵学校物語 あゝ江田島
other title: 海軍兵学校物語 あゝ江田島
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 overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account.
Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.
Kodokan Under a Morning Moon (1957) [Movie] TMDB
残月講道館
other title: 残月講道館
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 Sugawara and Takamatsu. It's loaded with dynamite, so to speak, and lasts five minutes on the screen, Sugawara, wins. Takamatsu, a poor loser, and his four ju-jitsu hoodlum companions later ambush Sugawara in the woods. This turns out to be a mortal combat. You'd like to learn the outcome, wouldn't you?
Dash to the Sun (1966) [Movie] TMDB
太陽に突っ走れ
director: Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Yukiyo Toake
other title: 太陽に突っ走れ
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 intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.