Sachiko Murase Movies

A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.

Two young girls, Nobiko and Tomiko, go to the same school. The less fortunate girl Nobiko is one of the top students, while the rich girl Tomiko is...

This story takes place at a school under the new educational system. It all began when a love letter addressed to Takeshi Kodama, the straightforward...

In a provincial Japanese town, an entrepreneurial sanitation collector is drawn into the world of local politics, only to discover that the...

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

1959 youth comedy.

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up...

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

A clash between old and new ideas set against the backdrop of a long-established store in Osaka.

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together...

Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names,...