Sadako Sawamura Movies

Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by...

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

Taeko Yasuhara was spectacularly betrayed by Takada, the man she loved and trusted. She had no idea that Takada was a drug-dealing robber who had...

An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.

A sequel to Geisha Konatsu (1954).

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to...

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

Penultimate 23rd "Ekimae" comedy is about oil-field exploration.

1959 youth comedy.

1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie

Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in...