Sachio Sakai Movies

The story of the hardships facing women working as maids and waitresses at a resort hotel restaurant.

Chōsokabe Kyutaro, notorious as a master swindler, abandons Tokyo and flees to Watakano Island near the Shima Peninsula. Upon hearing that the...

Thriller about a narcotics investigator uncovering a dope ring.

The fifth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the...

Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

Three friends leave Tokyo and take on a massive criminal organization in Hakata.

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza...

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is...

Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.

A dramatisation of the 24-hour period in which the Japanese government was deadlocked over the decision to accept or reject the Allies' demand for an...

When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft's alien stowaways decide to take over their new world one creature at a time....

Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a...