Sadako Sawamura Movies

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...

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.

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

Japanese drama film.

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.

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

An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both...

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...

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.