Sadako Sawamura Movies

Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during...

The sexworker who works in Turkish baths plans to make her fortune on the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her boyfriend. However, her...

Poverty-stricken sisters reach the age when they start attracting marriage proposals. They must decide between marrying for love or money, but their...

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

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

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

The story of the hardships facing women working as maids and waitresses at a resort hotel restaurant.

Sugiko Tsutsui, who works at a small publishing company on the verge of bankruptcy, became engaged four years ago to Tsuneo Oda, a factory worker at...

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and...

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

A bus driver and a female conductor on a route deep in the mountains are embroiled in a love affair that is depicted in great detail in this...

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

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