Sadako Sawamura Movies

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

A playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another opportunist, a young woman who is trying to seduce a...

1950s Japanese comedy.

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku S...

Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shis...

Story of young love in the hills.

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, prov...

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...

The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's bi...

1959 Japanese movie

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the stock market,...