Sadako Sawamura Movies

A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.

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

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

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring...

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...

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

The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.

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...

A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested by a detective. A year later, the gambler is...

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

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.

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.

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...

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie