Saburō Sawai Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner.

Japanese crime film.

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

Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

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...

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

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...

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...