Sadako Sawamura Movies

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...

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and...

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...

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

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...

1961 Japanese movie

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...

Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. The two arrange to meet at a hot spring, but...

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

After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural...

1962 Japanese movie

In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister...

1952 Japanese movie

Amidst the 1960 Japanese-American mutual security treaty, alienated young nihilist Takuya struggles to find his footing between his do-nothing wealth...

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.