Wakako Sakai Movies

Young Guy graduates from University.

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

Melodrama about high school life.

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

The first of four "Comic Storyteller' features.

The second "Comic Storyteller" feature.

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

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

Teacher Yuki (Natsuki) is appointed to a high school where he stages a big soccer match.

A romantic triangle comprised of two brothers in love with the same woman.

A teacher coaches a troubled youth who learns about life through the game of soccer.

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

Tetsuya, a worker at a US Air Base who moonlights as a bartender with his bar hostess roommate, dreams to move to the United States one day....

A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by...

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.

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

A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.

Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom,...

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.