Ikio Sawamura Movies

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...

1961 Japanese movie

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...

Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama

Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar...

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes...

As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the...

A beer salesman with a passion for fishmongering stumbles through mishaps, rivalries, and gangster trouble while chasing a big contract, winning the...

Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and...

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother...

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

A terrifying and thrilling adventure of a Japanese boy, Wataru, as he searches for his father in the highlands of Kenya, Africa.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.