Ryotaro Sugi

Acting

Ryotaro Sugi

Born 1944-08-14 · Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Acting credits

A Colt Is My Passport poster
7.1

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

A Colt Is My Passport

1967

Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love poster
NR

Sequel to Tokyo Drifter

Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love

1966

Showdown in Gangland poster
NR

Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.

Showdown in Gangland

1970

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower poster
NR

A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors who, after her father's death, disbanded her gang and moved to Tokyo by herself, where she becomes a hostess and demonstrates her natural chivalrous temperament, risking her life in the neon-lit Ginza district.

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

1969

Velvet Hustler poster
6.8

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man. They develop a strange bond while unbeknown to Goro, another hitman is after him for the job he did in Tokyo.

Velvet Hustler

1967

Shinran: Jinsei no Mokuteki poster
1.0

A historical film depicting the youth of Saint Shinran, founder of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, during the turbulent times between the late Heian and early Kamakura periods, about 850 years ago.

Shinran: Jinsei no Mokuteki

2025

Wind of Youth poster
7.0

A romantic Nikkatsu youth film about three female friends.

Wind of Youth

1968

Confession of a girl: Purity poster
9.0

The film depicts the life of a high school student today, touching on issues of purity, sports, higher education, and employment, through the pursuit of love and sex between a high school senior soccer player and a female student in the same class.

Confession of a girl: Purity

1968

The Final Winner? poster
8.0

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

The Final Winner?

1968

Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies! poster
9.0

In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. School-mates one after another are going to the front, where he feels he should be. The last straw is an official report of his father's death in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands. He rushes to the naval air corps training camp at Tsuchiura along with his close school-mates Naito, Yamada, Saito and Tagawa as Volunteer pilot trainees leaving his mother and sweetheart weeping and helpless.

Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!

1970

The Stormy Man poster
9.0

A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.

The Stormy Man

1966

Whirlwind Of Love poster
NR

A young woman in Hokkaido gets cold feet during her marriage ceremony and runs to Tokyo with her friends.

Whirlwind Of Love

1969

Swordsman For Hire poster
10.0

After witnessing his chief retainer’s plot to murder their lord, Matahachiro fled to lose himself in Edo’s crowded streets. By day he sells his sword skills to the highest bidder. By night he fights for his life against deadly swordsmen his clan sends to silence him. His samurai spirit is at its lowest ebb, his only solace a lovely female ninja, his paramour and potentially his deadly enemy. But as Edo witnesses the unfolding of the legendary vendetta of 47 Ronin, sworn to avenge Lord Asano against the treacherous Kira, Matahachiro’s small role in their noble quest will revive his bushido ideals. Sword in hand, he will seek his own bloody justice!

Swordsman For Hire

1989

Flowers and Fruits poster
NR

The ambitious Masako Izumi has drawn on Ishizaka literary style to create a fresh and pure love masterpiece. A cheerful tale of youth who carves out their own outlook on life through the joys and sorrows of school life

Flowers and Fruits

1967

Duel in the Storm poster
10.0

It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due to unpaid debts to the local thugs. His new life has not begun well and he is determined to rebuild the shattered business. The Yakuza, however, have added the ferry business to the rest of their portfolio of local concerns.

Duel in the Storm

1968