Sawako Agawa

Acting

Sawako Agawa

Born

1953-11-01 (72)

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

15 titles

Sawako Agawa (阿川 佐和子, Agawa Sawako, November 1, 1953) is a Japanese essayist, novelist and actress from Tokyo.

Known for

The Boy and the Heron poster
7.4

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one."

The Boy and the Heron

2023

Rikuoh poster
7.7

A CEO struggling to maintain his small sock business risks the company's future with a new challenge — creating a line of running shoes.

Rikuoh

2017

We Are Rockets! poster
7.2

Wakaba is a 2nd grade high school student in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. When Wakaba was little, she admired the cheerleading club "JETS” from Fukui Chuo High School in Fukui Prefecture. She dreamed of joining the "JETS,” but she thought it was impossible for her to join and enrolled at another high school. One day, a transfer student from Tokyo talks to Wakaba and proposes "let's do cheer dance together."

We Are Rockets!

2018

When I was a Child Everything Was Fine poster
6.0

A middle-aged couple's seemingly stable marriage unravels when a forgotten 20-year-old promise to divorce once their child turns 20 resurfaces, exposing stifled ambitions and hidden resentments as they confront evolving identities beyond their roles as parents.

When I was a Child Everything Was Fine

2025

Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean poster
6.3

A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.

Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean

2005

Cicada Boy poster
7.0

Okawa Yuka is living out the daily motions of life but doesn't understand her reason to keep living. After a confrontation with a co-worker, she decides to end it all but fails when she stops herself from squishing a cicada. That cicada returns the favor by transforming into a man, named semi, for seven days because he thinks it will make her happy. The downside is, he has no idea how to live as a human.

Cicada Boy

2019

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

Series credits

Rikuoh poster
7.7

A CEO struggling to maintain his small sock business risks the company's future with a new challenge — creating a line of running shoes.

Rikuoh

2017

We Are Rockets! poster
7.2

Wakaba is a 2nd grade high school student in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. When Wakaba was little, she admired the cheerleading club "JETS” from Fukui Chuo High School in Fukui Prefecture. She dreamed of joining the "JETS,” but she thought it was impossible for her to join and enrolled at another high school. One day, a transfer student from Tokyo talks to Wakaba and proposes "let's do cheer dance together."

We Are Rockets!

2018

When I was a Child Everything Was Fine poster
6.0

A middle-aged couple's seemingly stable marriage unravels when a forgotten 20-year-old promise to divorce once their child turns 20 resurfaces, exposing stifled ambitions and hidden resentments as they confront evolving identities beyond their roles as parents.

When I was a Child Everything Was Fine

2025

Cicada Boy poster
7.0

Okawa Yuka is living out the daily motions of life but doesn't understand her reason to keep living. After a confrontation with a co-worker, she decides to end it all but fails when she stops herself from squishing a cicada. That cicada returns the favor by transforming into a man, named semi, for seven days because he thinks it will make her happy. The downside is, he has no idea how to live as a human.

Cicada Boy

2019

Beat Takeshi Presents TV Tackle poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Beat Takeshi Presents TV Tackle

1989

Anata no Soba de Ashita ga Warau poster
NR

Somewhere at Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture lives a woman and her son. The woman is Mashiro Aoi who has lost her husband and bookstore cum home from the Tohoku earthquake. It has been 10 years since the disaster and Aoi decides to renovate a vacant place and reopen the bookstore which her late husband used to love. Aoi then meets an architect, Hayama Eiki who is not good at socialising. However, after much interactions, they begin to get attracted to each other.

Anata no Soba de Ashita ga Warau

2021

Sawako's Morning poster
NR

Sawako no Asa (Sawako's Morning) is a witty talk show hosted by Sawako Agawa – a brilliant conversationalist who talks about a variety of topics with a multitude of celebrities.

Sawako's Morning

2011