Ikio Sawamura Movies

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese horror comedy from 1967.

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...

1962 Japanese movie

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

A brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan after he learns that his employers have been...

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...

1962 Japanese movie

The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of...

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

Part one of The Masterless 47.

1967 Japanese movie

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

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...