Sadako Sawamura Movies

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

A comical love story between two college students — Hitomi, a strong-willed girl, and Shogo, a handsome, earnest and poverty stricken man.

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

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

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

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

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

Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by...

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

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....

Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country to Japan in order to experience the latter...

Japanese film.

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.

Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku

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