Sadako Sawamura Movies

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

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

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

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...

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...

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...

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...

A modern love story involving different affairs.

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.

An Ishiro Honda film.

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

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

1962 Japanese movie

Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor...

Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.

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...