Rieko Sumi Movies

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

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

1961 Japanese movie

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...

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,...

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

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

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...

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

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

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...

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...