Sadako Sawamura Movies

The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.

Japanese counterpart to Romeo and Juliet

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

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

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...

In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister...

Two brothers move to their grandfather's house after their father is drafted and play war games with their new classmates.

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

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

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in...

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

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...

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

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

Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.