Acting

Kazuo Sumita

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 16 titles

Tōkyō no josei poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tōkyō no josei

1960

Ten Women in Black poster
5.9

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.

Ten Women in Black

1961

Princess and I poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Princess and I

1962

A Night to Remember poster
7.5

Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.

A Night to Remember

1962

Order of Yakuza poster
8.0

Order of Yakuza

Order of Yakuza

1962

Nocturne of a Woman poster
7.0

A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a nightclub. He sets her up with her own nightclub, but with expectations attached.

Nocturne of a Woman

1961

High School Geisha poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

High School Geisha

1968

Black Trump Card poster
6.0

Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three people are sacrificed to his greed. The president of a small company who committed suicide, a Yakuza who died during the destruction of his territory, and a former viscount whose wife and property were stolen by Fukazawa. Their sons vowed to hunt down Fukazawa and take revenge.

Black Trump Card

1964

Let's Dance Tonight poster
9.0

A drama about the sex industry.

Let's Dance Tonight

1967

Bara to ryū poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Bara to ryū

1961

The Forest of No Escape poster
9.0

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

The Forest of No Escape

1965

Prize of Flesh poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Prize of Flesh

1961

Forbidden poster
NR

Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a doctor with a bright career ahead of her.

Forbidden

1962

Sutekina 16-sai poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Sutekina 16-sai

1962

Wounded Beast poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wounded Beast

1960

San kyōdai no kettō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

San kyōdai no kettō

1960

1950s · 18 titles

Tokai no kiba poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tokai no kiba

1959

Koi o sutta onna poster
NR

The case of a millionaire’s daughter who goes missing over a stolen necklace belonging to a foreign woman.

Koi o sutta onna

1958

Tsuma koso waga inochi poster
NR

This story depicts the struggles of a man living in the cutthroat world of competition and the pure love of his wife.

Tsuma koso waga inochi

1957

Odd Obsession poster
6.2

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.

Odd Obsession

1959

Woman of Fire poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Woman of Fire

1954

Where Might is Right poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Where Might is Right

1955

No artwork available
NR

Even the beautiful international port of Yokohama has a seedy underbelly. An action thriller in which a newspaper reporter plunges into a den of vice to expose the smuggling and the prostitution.

Dai san hijōsen

1956

Shunsetsu no mon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shunsetsu no mon

1953

Okore Sanpei poster
NR

Sanpei, an innocent sailor with incredible strength, arrives in the big city teeming with social ills carrying a mysterious bag.

Okore Sanpei

1953

No artwork available
NR

Yoshio Kawai is a lowly singer at the Bonbon-za, a third-rate theater in Asakusa. Together with fellow low-ranking actors Tokuri, Kameda, and Hanayama—and centered around Yumi, the beautiful dancer who serves as their mascot—they form a poor but cheerful group of five.

Warau chikyū ni asa ga kuru

1950

Ringo murakara poster
NR

A couple in love are separated between the city and the countryside and face misunderstandings due to slander from those around them, but are ultimately reunited at the apple orchard in their hometown.

Ringo murakara

1956

Giants and Toys poster
7.1

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

Giants and Toys

1958

No artwork available
NR

Twenty years after the father’s death and the mother and child’s separation, when they are reunited, a pistol aimed at the mother glints coldly in the child’s hand.

Kenjū no mae ni tatsu haha

1950

Bōya monogatari poster
NR

In Ginza Hachō, where violence and lust swirl, sparks fly from iron fists and passion against a backdrop of song and dance.

Bōya monogatari

1951

Escape Between Midnight and Dawn poster
NR

A yakuza man who dreads being released from prison, yet the day of his release arrives. Awaiting him are a woman’s burning gaze and the muzzle of a gangster’s gun…

Escape Between Midnight and Dawn

1950

No artwork available
NR

Hideki Yamaga runs a used bookstore in Ginza. He is a man known for his great physical strength, helping the weak and standing up to the strong, and is deeply respected and loved by the women of the city. Nicknamed “The Lone Wolf,” Hideki takes special care of street children. One morning, he rescues Kim Ono, a country girl who was standing there dazed with a single duffel bag, and asks Katsuko, the owner of a dressmaking shop he knows well, to hire her.

Lone Wolf

1950

Hyōchū no Bijo poster
NR

Based on the novel The Vampire (Kyūketsuki) by Edogawa Ranpo.

Hyōchū no Bijo

1950

The Singing Baseball Kid poster
NR

A musical comedy about a spirited orphan who forms a youth baseball team and gets caught up in a mix of sports, singing, and crime when he tries to return a star player’s lost money.

The Singing Baseball Kid

1951

1940s · 10 titles