Sadako Sawamura Movies

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

In a provincial Japanese town, an entrepreneurial sanitation collector is drawn into the world of local politics, only to discover that the...

Japanese comedy film.

The 22nd film in the Ekimae series about shop-owners living near Akabane Station, Tokyo.

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

1950s Japanese comedy.

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.

In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a...

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

The story follows Tomoko, a writer who becomes involved in a strange and distant relationship with Shingo, a married novelist. Though they haven't...

A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested by a detective. A year later, the gambler is...