Wakako Sakai Movies

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...

In feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world is strictly prohibited, an idealist appears at an isolated inn, headquarters of...

A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.

The third "Comic Storyteller" feature. A comedy set in historic Edo.

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.

During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.

Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.

Sequel to "何処へ" (1966). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka.

After a major corporate merger, a middle-aged executive is demoted but unexpectedly appointed president of a small subsidiary.

During WWII, Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son has fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.

Depicts various relationships between four beautiful sisters, their husbands, and their second daughter's husband's mistress.

Drama about an adolescent girl. Remake of Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

Young Guy graduates from University.

Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the...

Comedy-fantasy about a salaryman (Tani) and his imaginary friends.

Satoshi Nomura, a top-level bureaucrat of a prefecture government, has passion for his career. One day, he is hired by the fixed-term personnel...

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

An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.

1968 film