Acting

Sadako Sawamura

Born November 11, 1908 · Asakusa, Taito, Tokyo, Japan

Died August 16, 1996 · aged 87

Sadako Sawamura (沢村貞子, Sawamura Sadako; 11 November 1908 – 16 August 1996) was a Japanese stage and film actress and essayist who appeared in more than 350 films between 1935 and 1976. Sawamura was born in the Asakusa district of Tokyo. After dropping out of Japan Women's University, she was active in left-wing theatre groups and was twice arrested for her political beliefs, spending over a year …

Known For

Good Morning

Good Morning · 1959

MovieComedyFamily

Two boys beg their parents for a television set, nagging them until all patience is lost. The parents order the boys to be quiet and the boys do exactly that--refusing to utter a word. The boys' silence ultimately puts the whole neighborhood into turmoil.

The Life of Oharu

The Life of Oharu · 1952

The Life of Oharu

During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Late Autumn

Late Autumn · 1960

MovieDramaComedy

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.

A Fugitive from the Past

A Fugitive from the Past · 1965

A Fugitive from the Past

MovieCrimeDrama

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.

The Bell of Love

The Bell of Love · 1959

The Bell of Love

Chûshingura

Chûshingura · 1962

MovieHistoryDrama

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs · 1960

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

Street of Shame

Street of Shame · 1956

Street of Shame

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Filmography

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Good Morning

Good Morning · 1959

MovieComedyFamily

Two boys beg their parents for a television set, nagging them until all patience is lost. The parents order the boys to be quiet and the boys do exactly that--refusing to utter a word. The boys' silence ultimately puts the whole neighborhood into turmoil.

Kayoko Fukui

The Life of Oharu

The Life of Oharu · 1952

The Life of Oharu

During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Sasaya's wife Owasa

Late Autumn

Late Autumn · 1960

MovieDramaComedy

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.

Fumiko

A Fugitive from the Past

A Fugitive from the Past · 1965

A Fugitive from the Past

MovieCrimeDrama

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.

Motojima's Wife

The Bell of Love

The Bell of Love · 1959

The Bell of Love

Chûshingura

Chûshingura · 1962

MovieHistoryDrama

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs · 1960

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

Toshiko

Street of Shame

Street of Shame · 1956

Street of Shame

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Tatsuko Taya

The Flower That Crossed the Mountain

The Flower That Crossed the Mountain · 1949

The Flower That Crossed the Mountain

Love Letter

Love Letter · 1953

MovieRomanceDrama

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko.

Bookstor's owner

Night Bitch

Night Bitch · 1966

MovieCrimeDrama

A playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another opportunist, a young woman who is trying to seduce a rich married man. Their attempts at making easy money can only end tragically.

Matsu Komazaki

Young Lovers

Young Lovers · 1957

The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding them, they find it very difficult to achieve happiness.

Untamed Woman

Untamed Woman · 1957

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.

Oshima's aunt

Flame of My Love

Flame of My Love · 1949

Flame of My Love

MovieDramaRomance

In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.

Hito mo arukeba

Hito mo arukeba · 1960

Hito mo arukeba

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

Kin Narikin

In Search of Mother

In Search of Mother · 1962

In Search of Mother

Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in Edo (Tokyo), he travels there, intent on finding her and leaving the swordsman's life behind. But a team of rival gangsters is hot on his heels.

Otora

Nunnery Confidential

Nunnery Confidential · 1968

Nunnery Confidential

Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.

The Betrothed

The Betrothed · 1957

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

Shinkon noroke bushi

Shinkon noroke bushi · 1953

Shinkon noroke bushi

A comedy about newlyweds.

Ishimatsu of the Forest

Ishimatsu of the Forest · 1949

Ishimatsu of the Forest

MovieHistoryCrime

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

Snow Country

Snow Country · 1965

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.

Dance teacher

The Naked General

The Naked General · 1958

The Naked General

MovieComedyDrama

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

Mother

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Osei

Toilet Manager

Toilet Manager · 1961

The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.

Otei-chan

Otei-chan · 1978

The 21st NHK Asadora. Starring Chikako Yuri in a dramatization of the life of Sadako Sawamura.

Writer

Hikarugake

Hikarugake · 1977

SeriesCrimeMystery

The drama depicts the fateful meeting and falling in love between a man living in the glamorous world of the fashion business and a woman living in the social reality of law and order.

Daikazoku

Daikazoku · 1984

365日の献立日記

365日の献立日記 · 2019

365日の献立日記

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