Ikio Sawamura Movies

Based on the story "Actress and Poet" ("Joyu to shijin") by Minoru Nakano.

The fourth an final film in the "Jirocho igaiden" series.

After the son of a wealthy man is kidnapped, a tenacious young reporter decides to find the culprit.

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

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...

Comedy about a car salesman delivering a late model station wagon from Tokyo to Izumo to a representative of the Japanese Diet, who plans to use the...

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

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

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Soemon, the master of Gidayū-style madcap performances, has gathered the entire tenement block again tonight and is tormenting everyone with his...

When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and...

Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His...