Sadako Sawamura Movies

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....

1950s Japanese comedy.

Two high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted with Hinagiku, there are many adventures ahead of the...

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

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...

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

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...

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When...

1962 Japanese movie

An Ishiro Honda film.

A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the...

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...

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...

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

1961 Japanese movie

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the...

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity,...

Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.