The best Isao Sasaki’s drama movies

Isao Sasaki

Isao Sasaki

16/05/1942 (82 años)
Today we present the best Isao Sasaki’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Isao Sasaki’s movies.

Pale Flower

Pale Flower
7.7/10
Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman who is out seeking thrills, and whose presence adds spice to the staid masculine underworld rituals. Muraki becomes her mentor while simultaneously coping with the shifts of power that have affected the gangs while he was interred. When he notices a rogue, drug-addicted young punk hanging around the gambling dens, he realizes that Saeko's insatiable lust for intense pleasures may be leading her to self-destruction.

This Transient Life

This Transient Life
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/08/1970
  • Character: Mori's Son
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

The Sun's Burial

The Sun's Burial
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/08/1960
  • Character: New gang member Takeshi
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.

Good-for-Nothing

Good-for-Nothing
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/07/1960
  • Character: Singer
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.

The Black Kitten

The Black Kitten
Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.

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