Keiji Sada Movies

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chitose Kobayashi

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiji Sada

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

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Cast: Keiji Sada

A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūko Mochizuki

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shūji Sano

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

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Cast: Shūji Sano

The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

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Cast: Ineko Arima

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Cast: Keiji Sada

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Homare Suguro

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...

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Cast: Keiji Sada

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

1961 Japanese movie

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Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kuniko Igawa

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiji Sada

A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Matsukawa

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Keiji Sada

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Keiji Sada

Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.

Genre: Music

Cast: Chieko Baisho

A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddaughter, Madoka was ordered to be a new head. But...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth...

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Cast: Chikage Awashima

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mariko Okada

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a...

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Cast: Eijirō Yanagi

Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

The Glorious Days

Genre: War

Cast: Eitarō Ozawa

Inochi uruwashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant...

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Cast: Keiji Sada