Sadako Sawamura Movies

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

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...

1962 Japanese movie

A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a...

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

1962 Japanese movie

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to...

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

1962 Japanese movie

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

A modern love story involving different affairs.

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

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

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a...

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

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.