Sadako Sawamura Movies

A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a...

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...

1952 Japanese movie

Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during...

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...

1962 Japanese movie

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

1962 Japanese movie

1958 Japanese movie

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...

Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

Japanese film.

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was...

Japanese drama film.