Acting
Akiko Sawamura
Acting credits
NRDue to obligation, they parted ways, but mother and child meet again in front of the father's grave.
Haha chidori
1951
NRFilm directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako
Zoku zoku Jûdai no seiten
1953
8.0Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura, who owned a jade ring. If he failed to fulfill this condition, the inheritance would go to Chigusa instead.
Byakuran kōran
1952
NRIn 1945, in a Shanghai filled with a palpable sense of unease as the war was still raging, Atsuko Kijima and Ryuji Kudo fell in love and exchanged promises of marriage. Ryuji was deployed shortly thereafter, and after the war ended, he was taken to Siberia as a prisoner of war. Atsuko, who had returned to Tokyo, clung to the promise she had made with Ryuji—that if he were safe, he would “come to the garden of St. Nicholas Cathedral at noon on Christmas Day.” Relying on that promise, she went to St. Nicholas Cathedral at noon on Christmas Day in both 1946 and 1947, but Ryuji never appeared.
Tokyo Elegy
1951
No synopsis available yet.
Shinshu Tenmakyo
1952
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Zoku Tange Sazen
1953
NRA thrilling detective period drama set in the streets of Edo—a world of intrigue, conspiracy, romance, and turmoil—where a thief as agile as a flying monkey runs rampant.
Hibotan tōzoku
1950
Seventeen years have passed since that ill-fated mother and daughter parted with tears in their eyes. The mother, unable to reveal her name, peered through the window at her daughter in her wedding gown, her eyes filled with tears.
Haha zukiyo
1951
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Castle of Carnage
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
1952
NRSet against the backdrop of Hiroshima, a city plagued by gun violence, a passionate newspaper reporter and the citizens band together to courageously confront the tyranny of two major organized crime syndicates.
City of Violence
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Nodo jiman sanbagarasu
1951
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mabuta no haha
1952
NRA handsome young man infiltrates the Tanuki Kingdom, where conspiracies swirl around the Divine Mirror; he rescues the princess and turns the evil ministers against each other.
Awa tanuki yashiki
1952
7.0Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako
Jūdai no seiten
1953
NRA dead lover returns as a ghost
Kiri no yoru no kyōfu
1951
NRBased on a serialized newspaper novel by Taijiro Tamura. People living in the darkness of the city, Tachikawa Maki publishes the Ginza Minpo, a small newspaper that exposes the muggers and gangsters prevalent in the Ginza area.
Tokyo Gate
1950
NRThe Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not easy.
Spring Snow
1950
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hiren tsubaki
1953
NRYano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a man protecting jujitsu in the twilight of Kikyōgahara!
風雲児
1951
7.0The first film in the Daiei series. At the command of Lord Aiba, Tange Sazen targets two famous swords owned by Onozuka Tessai.
Tange Sazen
1953