Ikio Sawamura Movies

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

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...

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

A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

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

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

In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into...

Part one of The Masterless 47.

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...

A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.

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

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...

1964 Japanese movie

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the...

Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has...