Sadako Sawamura Movies

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity,...

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to...

Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with...

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while...

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the...

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

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

A young judo athlete ends up working as a cabaret bouncer.

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

Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.