Sadako Sawamura Movies

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.

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

1962 Japanese movie

Comedy around a motorman and a conductor of a streetcar.

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

1962 Japanese movie

The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house...

1959 youth comedy.

As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the...

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a...

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...