Sumie Sasaki Movies

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

Momi’s House is a facility to support self-reliance of young people with problems. The facility is run by Yasutoshi (Naoto Ogata) and his wife...

Miyama Akira is a movie director in his 60's. In the past, he left his hometown to chase his dream. When he learns that his friend, who used to talk...

A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island.

Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face. She shows up at the elementary school and acts...

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...

A film about a juvenile delinquent who swears, yet fails, to rehabilitate.

Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts...

Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.

1962 Japanese movie

Ippei Akabane (Takaya Kamikawa) is an unpopular novelist. He barely makes ends meet writing serials novels under different pen names. Daigo Kurei...

A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.

1962 Japanese movie

Sci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as high school freshmen during their summer vacation....

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a...

The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.

Naive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood cafe. Attracted to her manager there, the...

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.