Wakako Sakai Movies

The second "Comic Storyteller" feature.

The first of four "Comic Storyteller' features.

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...

An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.

During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.

The third "Comic Storyteller" feature. A comedy set in historic Edo.

"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company.

A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...

In feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world is strictly prohibited, an idealist appears at an isolated inn, headquarters of...

Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the...

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.

Satoshi Nomura, a top-level bureaucrat of a prefecture government, has passion for his career. One day, he is hired by the fixed-term personnel...

Teacher Yuki (Natsuki) is appointed to a high school where he stages a big soccer match.

Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.

Depicts various relationships between four beautiful sisters, their husbands, and their second daughter's husband's mistress.

Drama about an adolescent girl. Remake of Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

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.

After a major corporate merger, a middle-aged executive is demoted but unexpectedly appointed president of a small subsidiary.