Sadako Sawamura Movies

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...

A comedy about newlyweds.

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.

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

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

The Second movie based on a popular TV show about Pintemps Cosmetics and their struggles to make new successful products, filled with singing,...

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku

A beer salesman with a passion for fishmongering stumbles through mishaps, rivalries, and gangster trouble while chasing a big contract, winning the...

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

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...

The story of the hardships facing women working as maids and waitresses at a resort hotel restaurant.

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...

Master swordsman, Tsukue Ryunosuke is confronted by the families of his victims. Will justice be served for the lost innocent lives? The conclusion...

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.