Sadako Sawamura Movies

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going t...

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.

The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding them,...

Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, bus...

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

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

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

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo),at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to ke...

An Ishiro Honda film.

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their hon...

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 youn...

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for...

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope i...

On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job afte...