Wakako Sakai Movies

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.

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

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

The first of four "Comic Storyteller' features.

The second "Comic Storyteller" feature.

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

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

Drama depicting two men and a woman, each with their own issues, who head for Fukui, and their maturity and rejuvenation through travel. Recently...

A teacher coaches a troubled youth who learns about life through the game of soccer.

Love story of a working-class boy and girl.

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

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.

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...

Melodrama about high school life.

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.

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

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

A romantic triangle comprised of two brothers in love with the same woman.

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