Sachio Sakai Movies

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they...

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

1961 Japanese movie

Soldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and attempt to destroy an enemy fort.

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

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

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.

Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in...

The fifth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Sequel to "真実の愛情を求めて　何処へ" (1954). A coming-of-age drama...