Writing

Rokuhei Susukita

Born — Died

1899-01-01 — 1960-12-18

Place of birth

Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Writing

Credits

20 titles

In 1923 he joined Makino Production in Kyoto to write scripts for their major star, Tsumasaburo Bando. Until 1930 he wrote almost 90 scripts for this company and gained an enormous reputation, but that year he decided to write and direct his own films without Bando. He debuted as a director for the Emperor Kine Company (later Shinko Cinema) in 1930 with "The Strange Story of Mito Komon". But none of the 40 films he directed till 1954 were worthwhile. The next year he stopped writing films. Susukita, who during his career used four different pen names, was also creator of the character of Murasaki Zukin, also known as "The Black Hood" or "The Purple Hood" (lit.); which has been converted into…

Known for

Behind the camera

Super Hawk Volume II poster
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Super Hawk Volume II

1954

Super Hawk Volume II poster
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Super Hawk Volume II

1954

Super Hawk Volume III poster
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Super Hawk Volume III

1954

Super Hawk Volume III poster
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Super Hawk Volume III

1954

Orochi poster
6.9

This is the story of a samurai who falls on hard times due to misunderstandings and follows the plots of his enemies.

Orochi

1925

Kingoro's Pure Diary: A Company President's First Love poster
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Kingoro's Pure Diary: A Company President's First Love

1957

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Kingoro's Pure Diary: Comic Yakuza Story

1957

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Super Hawk Volume I

1954

Revenge at Jorurizaka 2: Bloody Battle at Dawn poster
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Revenge at Jorurizaka 2: Bloody Battle at Dawn

1955

Umon's Detective Story: Hakata Doll Gift poster
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Umon's Detective Story: Hakata Doll Gift

1955

Kagamiyama Enchanting Romance poster
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Japanese movie from 1930s

Kagamiyama Enchanting Romance

1938

Hatamoto kobushin shū poster
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1929 Japanese movie

Hatamoto kobushin shū

1929

Shippu no Seitarou poster
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A historical drama directed by Yukiya Sato, and co-written by Rokuhei Susukita and Jiro Okuzawa. Seitarou, who travels from trip to trip, was asked by Fujisuke, who was killed in a mess at the Shinshu Oil Shop's gambling house, to deliver his child Shinkichi to his mother Megumi in the old Iwanjoya in Shiojiri, Shinshu. Megumi was crying day and night, worrying for her child. Masagoro, the boss of the land who had been aiming for the replacement of Iwanjoya, forced Megumi to marry his son Hyokichi. On the way, Seitarou and Shinkichi helped Rohno, who was looking for his fiancee....

Shippu no Seitarou

1955

Kosuzume Pass poster
5.5

Tokutaro is an orphan child who becomes a street candy vendor. He sells candies, humming a song he learned long ago from his mother. One day he met with thieves along the way and this encounter changes their lives in ways they cannot imagine.

Kosuzume Pass

1923

Backward Flow poster
5.8

Nanjo Mikisaburo is a young samurai trying to restore his ruined family to its past glory. Enduring the contempt and disdain of high-ranking samurai, Mikisaburo devotes himself to the way of the warrior, mastering the literary and martial arts. His master Kurahashi Jupeita's daughter Misao feels for Mikisahuro who maintains his pride in the face of the arrogant samurai's scorn. She sympathizes with and encourages him. However this sympathy ignites a passionate love for her in Mikisaburo.

Backward Flow

1924

The Magic Pen poster
7.2

A western occupation propaganda film in which a boy repairs a western style doll that comes to life and uses a magic pen to rebuild his bleak and war torn world into a happy place resembling western civilization.

The Magic Pen

1946

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8.0

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Daikatsugeki Sôtô

1924

Edo kaizoku-den : Kagebôshi poster
NR

Kageboshi, based on the screenplay by Rokuhei Rokuhei Susukita, depicts the life of the ‘jovial thief’, Kageboshi.

Edo kaizoku-den : Kagebôshi

1925

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Kumo

1926

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Kaidan Honsho Nanafushigi

1937