Ikio Sawamura Movies

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after...

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...

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama

A combination of live action and animation chronicinge the great journey of Marco Polo to the mysterious Orient. Much of the story centers on Polo's...

Soldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and attempt to destroy an enemy fort.

1962 Japanese movie

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...

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

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

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie