Saburō Sawai Movies

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Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ihara Siro

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ihara Siro

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōji Matsubara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

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Cast: Bandō Jusaburō III

Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Kizaki, an upstart at a trading company has one more assignment for the day before meeting his lovely girlfriend, Natsuki for a date. Little does he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Maeda

Sashichi investigates the mysterious murders of four beauties, all of whom were stabbed in the chest.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryūzaburō Nakamura

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

My Daughter's Only Wish tells the story of a poorly paid and clumsy office clerk, played with much comedic talent by Atsushi Watanabe. His biggest...

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

Genre: History

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The phantom thief, known as the "Actor Kid", who was creating a stir in the Daimyo's mansion, especially in the inner chambers, was called Inaba...

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.

Genre: War

Cast: Shin Saburi

The legendary ninja Kurama Tengu (Enoken) uses his superhuman powers to help free a band of street urchins from their Fagin-like master. The film's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact...

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jūzaburō Akechi

A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jūzaburō Akechi

The film marked Yōko Mihara's debut as the star of Shintoho's series of ama films, a role she took over from Michiko Maeda.

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Cast: Ken Utsui

1958 jidaigeki directed by Masaki Mori for Shintoho.

Genre: History

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tōru Yuri

Japanese crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Third and last "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintaro Nakaoka

Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Takehisa

Japanese film.

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Rumi (Yoko Mihara) and Emi (Masayo Banri) are sisters who dance nightly at the Blue Moon cabaret, which happens be the headquarters of a drug ring....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yōko Mihara

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mayumi Ozora

In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious...

Genre: War

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend their days acquiring skills of the spear, sword...

Genre: Action

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Japanese crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Keinosuke Wada

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuko Wakasugi

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ennosuke Ichikawa

The year is 1945, months prior to Japan's ultimate defeat in WW2, and military lieutenant Sugawa is sent on a critical mission to deliver micro-fiche...

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Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shōzaburō Date

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

A 1942 film.

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jusaburo Bando

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Cast: Shinichi Himori

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is...

Genre: History

Cast: Reiko Aoi

Famed detective Dandy Sashichi tries to solve who's behind the serial murders of six beautiful women under the aegis of local showman Ibaragiya. The...

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner.

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Cast: Katsuko Wakasugi