Yukihiro Sawada

Directing

Yukihiro Sawada

Born — Died

1933-01-15 — 2022-09-21

Place of birth

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

31 titles

Japanese film director.

Known for

Izakaya Shinkansen poster
6.3

Takamiya Susumu is a salary man. He who works in audit division of an insurance company. His job has him traveling all over the country on one-day business trips via the Shinkansen train. When he visits an area on his business trips, he likes to find delicious food nearby and gets it to go. On his return, via the Shinkansen train, he eats the meals that he bought. The train becomes like an izakaya to him, a place to relax with good food and drinks.

Izakaya Shinkansen

2021

Shura ga Yuku 8 poster
NR

The 8th gangster action that depicts the familiar Hongo-gumi facing the Tokyo Waterfront City Development Project, which is a wide-area gangster in the Kansai region.

Shura ga Yuku 8

1998

Sex Hunter: Wet Target poster
4.2

While rotting away in jail, Okamoto learns of the death of his beloved sister, Natsuko. Violently assaulted by a group of U.S. military men during a drunken joyride, she was found dead by local authorities. Haunted by the tragedy, Okamoto escapes from jail to hunt down and kill those who destroyed the life of his sister. What he uncovers during his investigation is much more horrifying than he could ever imagine...

Sex Hunter: Wet Target

1972

One Day poster
7.7

A woman suffers from a rare form of temporary amnesia, lasting for a day. Her shy colleague, who is secretly in love with her, tells her that they are a couple in order to experience being with her for just one day.

One Day

2016

Assault! poster
4.0

A bar-owner named Kuroki, forlornly waits for his adulterous wife to get back from messing around with her boyfriend. She returns, but because she's been fooling around with gangsters she brings trouble with her. Kuroki gets tied up and beaten, his wife and customers get tortured and raped, and it is finally up to the mousy cuckold to set things right, Straw Dogs-style.

Assault!

1976

Panic in High School poster
6.9

A high school student rallies his classmates into rebelling violently when the administration refuses to take responsibility for the suicide of one of the students.

Panic in High School

1978

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Shura ga Yuku 8 poster
NR

The 8th gangster action that depicts the familiar Hongo-gumi facing the Tokyo Waterfront City Development Project, which is a wide-area gangster in the Kansai region.

Shura ga Yuku 8

1998

Sex Hunter: Wet Target poster
4.2

While rotting away in jail, Okamoto learns of the death of his beloved sister, Natsuko. Violently assaulted by a group of U.S. military men during a drunken joyride, she was found dead by local authorities. Haunted by the tragedy, Okamoto escapes from jail to hunt down and kill those who destroyed the life of his sister. What he uncovers during his investigation is much more horrifying than he could ever imagine...

Sex Hunter: Wet Target

1972

Assault! poster
4.0

A bar-owner named Kuroki, forlornly waits for his adulterous wife to get back from messing around with her boyfriend. She returns, but because she's been fooling around with gangsters she brings trouble with her. Kuroki gets tied up and beaten, his wife and customers get tortured and raped, and it is finally up to the mousy cuckold to set things right, Straw Dogs-style.

Assault!

1976

Panic in High School poster
6.9

A high school student rallies his classmates into rebelling violently when the administration refuses to take responsibility for the suicide of one of the students.

Panic in High School

1978

Rebellion Reward poster
NR

The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a photographer who uses his camera as a blackmail weapon. He is on the trail of a narcotics smuggler (Mikio Narita) and his beautiful contact (Haruko Wanibuchi). Watari meets a former gangster (Yujiro Ishihara) who is seeking revenge against Narita, his former partner. Watari and Ishihara become allies and hijack the dope shipment. But Narita threatens the life of Haruko, who turns out to be Ishihara's sister, and demands the dope in return for the girl.

Rebellion Reward

1973

Rape Hunter: Target Woman poster
3.6

Fuyuko, a married woman filled with grief after a miscarriage, has an affair with a younger man and finds herself involved in a robbery plot. For Fuyuko, who is at an impasse, there is no longer "family", "love" and "freedom".

Rape Hunter: Target Woman

1980

Showdown in Gangland poster
NR

Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.

Showdown in Gangland

1970

Rape Frenzy: Five Minutes Before Graduation poster
7.5

After twelve years of school - twelve years of a strict, regimented life-style - high school graduation can be a very scary moment. It's a time when a student suddenly realizes everything is about to change. And many are not ready for the drastic fluctuation in their lives. This film concentrates on traumas facing two different graduates. Hideo and his friends always hang out at The Joint, a sand-wich/soda shop near the school. Just prior to graduation, the place is closed up. This gives an unsettling message to the kids who are already queasy over their own future. They react badly by going to school and raping their homeroom teacher. Meanwhile, Ichiro, who failed the University Entrance Exam, has barricaded himself - along with girlfriend Ranko - in a hotel with a rifle.

Rape Frenzy: Five Minutes Before Graduation

1977

No Grave for Us poster
6.3

A plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble...

No Grave for Us

1979

Heisei Gokudoden Yasha Tears! poster
NR

Seven years have passed since the incident of the previous work. Yakuza Seiji, who was called a "Bodhisattva" and was afraid of being a "Yaksha" if he had a dos, started working at a hunting station and a town factory. There, I met Keiko, a clerk. Keiko lived with her son, who was born to a yakuza. Seiji's former group was crushed by the Ryujinkai, and Akamatsu, who had a grudge against Seiji, was at the top. Knowing the source of Seiji, Akamatsu begins revenge using bodyguards Kobiki and others. Seiji lived in peace, but the people around him were harmed and his heart returned to "Yaksha" ...

Heisei Gokudoden Yasha Tears!

1999

Heisei Gokudoden Ashura slashes! poster
NR

Tachibana of Mutsumi Yato Kogyo, whose leader was assassinated. He is glared at the work of the hostile organization Konan Service, but his big brother Kurosaki is well rounded up with his traces as bait. Masa and Jun, who are the thugs, ignore the unsuccessful executives and aim for the Konan service leader who was the chairman of the Mutsumikai, but failed! Jun is captured and killed. Kurosaki tries to secure Yato Kogyo in exchange for Jun's life.

Heisei Gokudoden Ashura slashes!

1997

Heisei Gokudoden Ashura slashes! poster
NR

Tachibana of Mutsumi Yato Kogyo, whose leader was assassinated. He is glared at the work of the hostile organization Konan Service, but his big brother Kurosaki is well rounded up with his traces as bait. Masa and Jun, who are the thugs, ignore the unsuccessful executives and aim for the Konan service leader who was the chairman of the Mutsumikai, but failed! Jun is captured and killed. Kurosaki tries to secure Yato Kogyo in exchange for Jun's life.

Heisei Gokudoden Ashura slashes!

1997

Heisei Zankeiden: Battered Slash! poster
NR

A man who was trapped by a gangster who was taken over by a sneaky means of life, such as a gangster and a gangster who disappeared from the screen with the era of his work. With the trampled step-in-law and streaks as shields, the last princes of Heisei who sought a place to die at the end show a fierce way of life!

Heisei Zankeiden: Battered Slash!

1996

The Moon Mask Rider poster
6.5

The Moon Mask Rider is a tokusatsu movie produced by Purumie International/Herald Enterprises and distributed by Nippon Herald Pictures, was released theatrically on March 14, 1981. Considered Japan's answer to the American box-office fiasco, The Legend of the Lone Ranger (released the same year), this updated version of the Moonlight Mask legend bombed at the Japanese box-office. Daisuke Kuwahara (who, like Klinton Spilsbury , disappeared from doing films) plays George Owara (Moon Mask Rider's new alter-ego), and the rest of the cast made up of veteran action starlets: Sue Shihomi, Daijiro Harada and Takayuki Godai.

The Moon Mask Rider

1981

The Moon Mask Rider poster
6.5

The Moon Mask Rider is a tokusatsu movie produced by Purumie International/Herald Enterprises and distributed by Nippon Herald Pictures, was released theatrically on March 14, 1981. Considered Japan's answer to the American box-office fiasco, The Legend of the Lone Ranger (released the same year), this updated version of the Moonlight Mask legend bombed at the Japanese box-office. Daisuke Kuwahara (who, like Klinton Spilsbury , disappeared from doing films) plays George Owara (Moon Mask Rider's new alter-ego), and the rest of the cast made up of veteran action starlets: Sue Shihomi, Daijiro Harada and Takayuki Godai.

The Moon Mask Rider

1981

Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland poster
4.4

A group of corrupt police detectives go on a manhunt for an ex-collogue who they believe could blow their whole rotten operation wide open.

Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland

1973

Hazardous Graduation poster
4.0

Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.

Hazardous Graduation

1970

Confinement Escape: Plundered Love poster
NR

The condemned criminal of the false accusation that I bet on a jailbreak to appeal for own innocence. It was revenge to the true criminal. The target is a fiance, beautiful office lady of the true criminal. Innocence to take her, and to appeal for by a threatening telephone call. In the escape drama, she mentions the gentleness of the man and knows the truth. The beautiful woman female office worker who I lose a heart to a man gradually and open the body by oneself, and pushes forward self-surrender. The urge to kill of the true criminal who broke into it alone takes two people then. And the truth of the case is uncovered!

Confinement Escape: Plundered Love

1997

The Four Roughnecks poster
5.0

Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.

The Four Roughnecks

1974

Melody of Rebellion poster
6.5

The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.

Melody of Rebellion

1970

Deer Friend poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Deer Friend

1991

Deer Friend poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Deer Friend

1991

Flesh Target: Rape! poster
4.2

A sexually frustrated office worker hits his boss in a night club. The next day he is told he will be demoted to a different position in the company. This disturbs him so much he begins to target all the office ladies who had rejected him.

Flesh Target: Rape!

1979

Tomodachi poster
NR

Shinta is a sixth grader in Kawasaki City a troublemaker that dreams to become a soccer player. Yoshiko, a classmate who moved to Kawasaki from Iwate Prefecture two years ago, is a gloomy girl who suffers from asthma due to the polluted air in Kawasaki and is ostracized by her class. Shinta is placed next to Yoshiko in class and their stories will take a turn.

Tomodachi

1974

Osoe! poster
4.3

A woman wants revenge on a corporation for its role in the death of her parents, and she is willing to go to great lengths to achieve her goal.

Osoe!

1978

Kanto Kanbu-kai poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kanto Kanbu-kai

1971

Heisei Zankeiden: Gaido is Killed! poster
NR

Takanezawa, a young head of the Yokohama Kibe group, confronts the Kansai organization that forces the transfer of Shima with the debt of the previous generation as a shield. Appeared by Riki Takeuchi and Hagiwara fashion.

Heisei Zankeiden: Gaido is Killed!

1997

Gokudo Otoko Juku poster
NR

A rough man who has been hit by the times hits an established organization!

Gokudo Otoko Juku

1995

Let's Shoot Ridiculously poster
NR

Takashi Kashiwagi, who once participated in Koshien as a high school baseball player, is now a member of the Mutsumi Imai Federation

Let's Shoot Ridiculously

1991