Sadako Sawamura Movies

Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision will...

Japanese comedy film.

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful ar...

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...

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

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions a...

In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a su...

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

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

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.

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.

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the famil...

A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in Kyoto,...

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...

A comical love story between two college students — Hitomi, a strong-willed girl, and Shogo, a handsome, earnest and poverty stricken man.

Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is marryin...

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