Writing

Sakae Hirosawa

Born — Died

1924-06-19 — 1996-12-27

Known for

Writing

Credits

12 titles

Known for

Sandakan No. 8 poster
7.8

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Sandakan No. 8

1974

Brand of Evil poster
7.7

A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where he is asked to investigate Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm president. While secretly conducting his own research, he finds out that Takazawa's husband is the one, responsible for Kikuchi's imprisonment, who also have set sights on Setsuko, a woman Kikuchi becomes romantically involved with.

Brand of Evil

1964

Hymn to a Tired Man poster
8.2

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.

Hymn to a Tired Man

1968

Red Lion poster
6.5

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.

Red Lion

1969

Chikuhō no kodomotachi poster
NR

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

Chikuhō no kodomotachi

1960

Messengers to Satsuma poster
NR

By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domain. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have infiltrated Satsuma in order to scout everything on the spot. However, they had all disappeared, and it was unclear whether they were alive or dead. Kenzaburo Kamiya and Iori Matsumura successfully infiltrate as the eighth and ninth spies and witness law-breaking exercises using a cannon. However, soon Satsuma men found them and drove them to the cliff...

Messengers to Satsuma

1982

Behind the camera

Sandakan No. 8 poster
7.8

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Sandakan No. 8

1974

Brand of Evil poster
7.7

A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where he is asked to investigate Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm president. While secretly conducting his own research, he finds out that Takazawa's husband is the one, responsible for Kikuchi's imprisonment, who also have set sights on Setsuko, a woman Kikuchi becomes romantically involved with.

Brand of Evil

1964

Hymn to a Tired Man poster
8.2

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.

Hymn to a Tired Man

1968

Red Lion poster
6.5

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.

Red Lion

1969

Chikuhō no kodomotachi poster
NR

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

Chikuhō no kodomotachi

1960

Messengers to Satsuma poster
NR

By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domain. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have infiltrated Satsuma in order to scout everything on the spot. However, they had all disappeared, and it was unclear whether they were alive or dead. Kenzaburo Kamiya and Iori Matsumura successfully infiltrate as the eighth and ninth spies and witness law-breaking exercises using a cannon. However, soon Satsuma men found them and drove them to the cliff...

Messengers to Satsuma

1982

The Song from My Heart poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Song from My Heart

1969

Abandoned poster
8.0

The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship wrecked by a storm, and after twelve years, he returned to human society.

Abandoned

1981

Musume to watashi poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Musume to watashi

1962

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Fortune poster
NR

The 22nd film in the Ekimae series about shop-owners living near Akabane Station, Tokyo.

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Fortune

1968

Onna no naka no akuma poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Onna no naka no akuma

1982

A Hundred-Years' Comedy in Front of the Station poster
8.0

The 21st film in the Ekimae series, commemorating the 35th anniversary of Toho. The film is a loose remake of the first film in the series, Ekimae Ryoukan.

A Hundred-Years' Comedy in Front of the Station

1967