Sadako Sawamura Movies

Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.

Manao Horiuchi movie

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...

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

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

A modern love story involving different affairs.

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

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

On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was...

A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos,...

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

First of three Awamori-kun movies. Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi.

The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...

1962 Japanese movie

1959 youth comedy.

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.