Sadako Sawamura
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 11, 1908
Place of Birth: Asakusa, Taito, Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Tale of Army Brutality
Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. For his first film, the director was awarded the Blue Ribbon Awards in the Debutant of the Year nomination.
Flower Cards Chivalry
A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested by a detective. A year later, the gambler is staying with a gangster boss when he comes across the woman and her partner again. The boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss's crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way.
Hero of the Red Light District
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.
Lady Sen and Hideyori
From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the great warlords vied for power over the nation. Princess Sen, a daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu, is caught amidst the family feud between the Tokugawa and Toyotomi families. When her father Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu attacks her husband Toyotomi Hideyori's castle, her life takes a sudden turn for the worse. Will she ever find peace in her life again? One of Hibari Misora's most memorable performances, a movie you will never forget!
The Kii River
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.
Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
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.
Late Autumn
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.
Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
Street of Shame
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Filmography
as 献立
as Deguchi Ume
as Kayo Kitagawa
as Setsuko Sasaki
as Taki
as Ichi, housekeeper
as Kikue Sugisaki
as Matsu Komazaki
as Riki Tonobe
as Dance teacher
as Masako Yamashita
as Motojima's Wife
as Teacher Ikegami
as Tomiko Sekiguchi
as Matsuko
as Tetsu Kawabe
as Hostess at 'Mitsuda'
as Shigeko
as Toki, Yahichi's mother
as Sugimoto Natsuko
as Makiko
as Yodogimi
as Mother
as Otora
as Katsu
as Kimie Morikawa
as Kitamura
as Kame
as Mrs. Sotaro Uhara
as Yuki Takeuchi
as Kikuyo
as Fumiko
as Mrs. Tazawa
as Aki Katsura
as Kaneko Tsujikura
as Madam next to Hikariso
as Kiyo
as Kin Narikin
as Oiku Wada
as Kazuko Sugawara
as Toshiko
as Omine
as Yabuki Toyo
as Ayako Nozaki
as Mrs. Nakazato
as Fusako Kaneko
as Fumiko
as Kayoko Fukui
as Takako Hirasawa
as Chiyo Tsukagoshi
as Chie Shibata, Sumiko's Mother
as Otsuno
as Sadako Kamiya
as Tane
as Tatsuko Ono
as Tane
as Tane Abe
as Oshima's aunt
as Tane, Ushinosuke's Mother
as Akiyama's mother
as Omatsu Hayashi
as Taniyama’s Mother
as Tatsuko Taya
as Kuniko's mother (uncredited)
as 玉椿
as Sumie Shida
as Satoko (Ishiyama’s wife)
as 鶴田はと子
as Tomi, Shinji's Mother
as Nobu
as Kazama’s Aunt
as Fusako Tashiro
as Bookstor's owner
as Mrs. Ushiyama
as Kiyoko
as Natsu, Mayumi's mother
as Miss Shen
as Jewelry shop proprietress
as Osei
as Mrs. Kuwabara
as Sasaya's wife Owasa
as Kumako
as Mitsue
as Yasuko
as Takeko
as Captain's mother
as Kiyo
as Kikuko Yamashita
as Mother
as Apprentice Geisha
as Tomoko, Hideko's mother
as Sumie