Sadako Sawamura — Actor (32)
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Policeman's Diary (1955)
警察日記 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Seiji Hisamatsu actor: Hisaya Morishige / Yūnosuke Itō …
other title: 警察日記 / Keisatsu Nikki …
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.
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The Passionate Spinster (1965)
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Kō Nakahira actor: Izumi Ashikawa / Kumeko Urabe …
other title: 結婚相談
She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that wasn't hers. She knew the procedure: watch the bride and groom get congratulated, smile to cover up the loneliness. But she didn't want to feel like this forever. In that moment, Shimako decided that the next wedding she'd attend had to be her own.
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Whirlpool of Flesh (1964)
おんなの渦と淵と流れ IMDb TMDB
Kō Nakahira actor: Noboru Nakaya / Kazuko Inano …
other title: おんなの渦と淵と流れ
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that results in her sleeping with a great number of men.
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Night Scandal in Japan (1964)
二匹の牝犬 IMDb TMDB
Yūsuke Watanabe actor: Mayumi Ogawa / Mako Midori …
other title: Le calde amanti di Kyoto / Night Ladies …
The sexworker who works in Turkish baths plans to make her fortune on the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her boyfriend. However, her plans are turned upside down by the arrival of her half-sister, and her boyfriends unfaithfulness.
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When It Rains, It Pours (1957)
土砂降り IMDb TMDB
Noboru Nakamura actor: Keiji Sada / Mariko Okada …
other title: 土砂降り
Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess.
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs (1952)
足にさわった女 IMDb TMDB
Kon Ichikawa actor: Fubuki Koshiji / Ryō Ikebe …
other title: 足にさわった女
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 she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of course, the detective falls in love with his prey.
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In Search of Mother (1962)
瞼の母 IMDb TMDB
Tai Katō actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Hiroki Matsukata …
other title: 瞼の母
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.
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So Young, So Bright (1955)
ジャンケン娘 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Toshio Sugie actor: Hibari Misora / Chiemi Eri …
other title: ジャンケン娘 / Adorable juventud
Two high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted with Hinagiku, there are many adventures ahead of the three of them. A musical starring 3 Japanese pop music and TV stars.
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Romance Express (1961)
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Yūzō Kawashima actor: Frankie Sakai / Reiko Dan …
other title: 特急にっぽん
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 straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as a dour company president. Based on the novel "Seven and a half hours", by Shishi Bunroku.