Sadako Sawamura Movies

1950s Japanese comedy.

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

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

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

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...

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job...

Manao Horiuchi movie

This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.

1962 Japanese movie

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.

From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the great warlords vied for power over the nation....

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the...

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...