Sadako Sawamura Movies

A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos,...

Japanese drama film.

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.

Japanese comedy film.

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...

A modern love story involving different affairs.

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to...

1962 Japanese movie

1959 youth comedy.

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.

The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding...

First of three Awamori-kun movies. Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi.

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).