Best movies of Yoshiko Sakuma

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yoshiko Sakuma, Jûzô Itami, Yûko Kotegawa,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of ...

Actors : Yûjirô Ishihara, Yoshiko Sakuma, Toshirô Mifune, Kinnosuke Nakamura,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces ...

Actors : Yoshiko Sakuma, Eitarô Shindô, Ken Takakura, Chiezô Kataoka,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

A photo taken of Takakura and Shindo both sporting full-upper-body tattoos, something not the common in pre-1963 yakuza films.

Actors : Yoshiko Sakuma, Jo Mizuki, Isuzu Yamada, Kin'ya Kitaôji,

Zushio and his sister Anju are kidnapped and sold to a cruel slave-master. Will they ever be reunited with their mother again?

Actors : Yoshiko Sakuma, Ryûji Oki, Chiezô Kataoka, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Per aging chanbara star Katoaka's involvement, this leans more to the old-fashioned gangster film style/formula spilling over from Toei's 1950s heyday.

Actors : Yoshiko Sakuma, Minoru Chiaki, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Michiyo Kogure,
Directors : Tomotaka Tasaka,

A forlorn love story between a young monk and his childhood sweet-heart set in post WWII Japan.

Actors : Yoshiko Sakuma, Kôji Tsuruta, Ken Takakura, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Tadashi Sawashima,

Romantic ninkyô yakuza film.

Actors : Yoshiko Sakuma, Hiroki Matsukata, Kôji Tsuruta, Shingo Yamashiro,
Directors : Masahiro Makino,

The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on the path to fame and fortune. One of the...

Actors : Hiroyuki Nagato, Yoshiko Sakuma, Kôji Tsuruta, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Tadashi Sawashima,

Serving his prison time after the events of the first movie, Hishakaku discovers that Otoyo is working as a prostitute in Manchuria. He travels to China to save the woman he still loves, only to get involved in a battle he can never win.

Actors : Yoshiko Sakuma, Shin'ichi Chiba, Junko Fuji, Shigeru Amachi,
Directors : Tsuneo Kobayashi,

Another obscure, early entry in the just-beginning ninkyô cycle.