The best Kenji Sawada’s movies

Kenji Sawada

Kenji Sawada

25/06/1948 (75 años)
Today we present the best Kenji Sawada’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 Kenji Sawada’s movies.
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/05/1985
  • Character: Osamu (segment "Kyoko's House")
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima told in four parts. The first three parts relate events in three of his novels: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses. The last part depicts the events of 25th November 1970.

Samurai Reincarnation

Samurai Reincarnation
6.5/10
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.

The Happiness of the Katakuris

The Happiness of the Katakuris
6.9/10
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.

A Pool Without Water

A Pool Without Water
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/02/1982
  • Character: Yakuza
The man has a monotonous job punching tickets for the Japanese railway. One night, while walking home, he saves Jun from getting raped by two hoodlums. A few days later, he sneaks into her house but gets discovered. Later, as he watches his son subdue an insect with a chemical, the man gets an idea to subdue women while they're sleeping so he won't be discovered sneaking into their home. His new hobby spirals out of control as his confidence grows.

Hiruko the Goblin

Hiruko the Goblin
6.1/10
A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Hiruko is a goblin sent to Earth on a reconnaissance mission. He beheads students in order to assemble their heads on the demons' spider-like bodies. Hieda, an archaeology professor, and Masao, a haunted student, investigate the gory deaths and eventually battle Hiruko.

The Man Who Stole the Sun

The Man Who Stole the Sun
7.5/10
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.

Yumeji

Yumeji
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/05/1991
  • Character: Yumeji Takehisa
Artist Yumeji has gained fame and recognition for his skills at painting as well as notoriety for his untamed lifestyle. Despite his betrothal to a beautiful and timid young woman of high birth, his libido turns to his many female models. Despite this freedom from constraint, his lust and artistic sentiment cause him nothing but an increasing awareness of the elusive embodiment of true Beauty. While traveling he encounters a mesmerizing widow who relentlessly searches for her husband's body in the nearby lake, believing him killed at the hands of a ferocious roaming bandit. Infatuated with her beauty, he feigns to help her look for the corpse, only to unlock the mystery himself thereby sending him to further depths of debauchery and despair. This is the third and final film in director Suzuki Seijun's critically acclaimed Taisho Trilogy.

Sabu

Sabu
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 14/05/2002
  • Character: Okayasu
When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.

Pistol Opera

Pistol Opera
6.3/10
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

It’s a flickering life

It’s a flickering life
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/04/2021
  • Character: Go
The story centers on a man who loves movies, work at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams, surrounded by great directors and star actors. He and his friend fall in love with the daughter or cafeteria played by Nagano Mei.

Baka yarô! 4 You! Omae no koto da yo 3 Sagi naru Japan

Baka yarô! 4 You! Omae no koto da yo 3 Sagi naru Japan
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/09/1991
  • Character: Hajime Shiraishi (segment "カラダだけの男")

Revolver

Revolver
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/10/1988
  • Character: Nobuhiko Shimizu, Police Officer
When a gun belonging to a police officer is stolen, it ends up in the hands of a student, who decides to use it on a yakuza who beat him recently. Now the police officer is hot on the student’s trail, and he’s determined to prevent the gun from going off.

Tora-san, the Expert

Tora-san, the Expert
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/12/1982
  • Character: Saburo
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.

Deaths in Tokimeki

Deaths in Tokimeki
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/02/1984
  • Character: Naoya Kudo
Deaths in Tokimeki tells the disturbing, compulsive story of a hit-man waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of a religious cult, masterminded by the leader's own deputy. But it is a story that is told in blocks, like the phrases in a child's computer game, and what counts most is not the narrative but the spaces between the blocks-the gaps that are filled with undefined menaces as potent as anything in Lovecraft.

Capone Cries a Lot

Capone Cries a Lot
6.3/10
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Que C'est Triste Paris

Que C'est Triste Paris
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/02/1976
Japanese drama film.

Osaka Story

Osaka Story
6.3/10
  • Release: 26/03/1999
  • Character: Shimotsuki, Ryûsuke
Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.

Lover Comeback To Me

Lover Comeback To Me
  • Release: 23/09/1983
Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on her shoulder.

Statue in Fire

Statue in Fire
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/12/1974
Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).

The Tigers - Hi! London

The Tigers - Hi! London
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 12/07/1969
  • Character: Julie
The Tigers are much too busy to have a holiday; but one day a mysterious man appears in their dressing room and offers them a trip to anywhere in the world. But he tells them they must come back in 24 hours or else he'll own their hearts. The mysterious man is the devil.

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