Ikio Sawamura Movies

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers,...

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes...

1962 Japanese movie

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an...

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...

Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar...

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama

1967 Japanese movie

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.

The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".

An Ishiro Honda film.