Tsûsai Sugawara

Tsûsai Sugawara

Born: February 15, 1894
Died: June 13, 1981
in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Japanese social activist, business leader, writer, art patron, and occasional actor. In the West he is best known for his cameo appearances in several of the last films directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Movies for Tsûsai Sugawara...

Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
Title: Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
Character: Tsusai Sugawara
Released: September 15, 1973
Type: Movie
A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the death may not have been an accident after all, and has something to do with international drug smuggling.
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The Horrible Obsessions
Title: The Horrible Obsessions
Character: Sugawara
Released: December 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment of addicts, dealers, pimps and sleazy American GIs.
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A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
Title: A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
Released: September 6, 1972
Type: Movie
Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.
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The Kii River
Title: The Kii River
Character: Tazaki
Released: June 11, 1966
Type: Movie
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.
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A Trap
Title: A Trap
Released: May 28, 1965
Type: Movie
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
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How to Make Money
Title: How to Make Money
Released: February 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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The King
Title: The King
Released: November 23, 1962
Type: Movie
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi skills and lives a fanatically devoted shogi game supported by the love of his family. This is the 3rd adaptation of Hideji Hojo's famous play.
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This Year's Love
Title: This Year's Love
Released: January 14, 1962
Type: Movie
Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight. Although she gave the cold shoulder to Tadashi, she gradually became fond of Tadashi.
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A Geisha's Diary
Title: A Geisha's Diary
Character: Shimazaki
Released: July 28, 1961
Type: Movie
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.
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Late Autumn
Title: Late Autumn
Character: Sushiya Kyaku
Released: November 13, 1960
Type: Movie
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
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Floating Weeds
Title: Floating Weeds
Character: Sushi Restaurant Customer
Released: November 17, 1959
Type: Movie
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake of Ozu's own silent film The Story of Floating Weeds (1934).
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Good Morning
Title: Good Morning
Character: Customer
Released: May 12, 1959
Type: Movie
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
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Equinox Flower
Title: Equinox Flower
Character: Mr. Sugai
Released: September 7, 1958
Type: Movie
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
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Tokyo Twilight
Title: Tokyo Twilight
Character: Mahjong Parlor Owner
Released: April 30, 1957
Type: Movie
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
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Our Town
Title: Our Town
Character: Tsuruta Tomizō, Diving Company Boss
Released: August 28, 1956
Type: Movie
In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love with Shintaro. But Takichi objects to their relationship...
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Early Spring
Title: Early Spring
Character: Mr. Sugai
Released: January 29, 1956
Type: Movie
A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.