Sadako Sawamura Movies

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

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

A sequel to Geisha Konatsu (1954).

Set against the backdrop of the Warring States period, this thrilling period drama follows the "Demon of Iga," a bloodthirsty and resolute Koga-ryu...

In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...

Penultimate 23rd "Ekimae" comedy is about oil-field exploration.

1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to...

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...

During a winter visit to her grandfather’s mountain home, a young saleswoman becomes entangled in love and jealousy among visiting skiers....

Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in...

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

Expressing the distinct personalities of the three daughters.

Five regulars at “Maxwell,” a cabaret tucked away in the back streets of Ginza—including Chida and Numai—are once again...