Sadako Sawamura Movies

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

She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that...

Japanese comedy film.

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

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

1962 Japanese movie

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and...

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

On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job...

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....

A modern love story involving different affairs.

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions...

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...

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

Story of young love in the hills.