Toshio Sugie

Toshio Sugie (杉江敏男, Sugie Toshio, September 24, 1913 – October 10, 1996) is a Japanese film director. He directed films from the 1940s to the 1970s.
== Career ==
Sugie was born in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture (currently Shimizu District, Shizuoka City) in 1913. After graduating from the Waseda University, he joined P.C.L (predecessor of Toho) in 1937. Sugie worked as an assistant director for Kajiro Yamamoto, Shiro Toyoda, Yasujiro Shimazu, Mikio Naruse and Akira Kurosawa until he made his first feature film, Gate of Tokyo in 1950. Since then, he directed many films that was based on a originals novels such as "I Can't Say That Person's Name" and "Oblivion Petals", youth films like "Janken Musume", "Mai-chan Series" and "Wakadaisho Series", and action movies such as "Smuggling Ship". He supported Toho as a director who spins in various directions with comedy franchise like the "President Series" and Crazy Cats. 
Even on a public basis, mass production in the Japanese art world, with 6 in 1955, 7 in 1956, 5 in 1957, 4 in 1958, 4 in 1959, 5 in 1960, and 6 in 1961 ... At the time, he continued to shoot the projects that came from the company one after the other without interruption, and left 68 directorial works in less than 20 years. 
He was the flagship of the Program Pictures focusing on so-called comedy films and films for the young, but Sugie himself said he wanted to make a thriller movies, like "36 Passengers" and "Death on the Mountain ". The thrillers, which are just a few of the director's works, are still very popular to this day. From the second half of the 1960s, the number of theatrical directors declined due to the sunshine of the Japanese film industry, and he moved to Toho TV Club to direct TV series.
== Filmography ==
* All films on IMDB