Kunitaro Sawamura Movies

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...

Itarō abandons his life as a hatamoto to become a yakuza.

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love...

A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

A series of murders surrounds the 70,000 ryō in buried treasure hidden by the Kanayama Magistrate.

Japanese drama film.

The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent...

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

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao