Sachio Sakai Movies

The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa...

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a...

The last (10th) Toho "Crazy film" in the Nippon Ichi series.

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV...

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...

Period romantic drama.

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

Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas.

1962 Japanese movie

A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in the same situation.

Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar...

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...

A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme involves winning the business of a...

In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to...

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...