Best movies of Tadashi Sawashima

Actors : Rentarô Mikuni, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Kin'ya Kitaôji,
Directors : Tadashi Sawashima,

Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant ...

Actors : Hiromi Hanazono, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Shunji Sakai, Nijiko Kiyokawa,
Directors : Tadashi Sawashima,

A small-time con artist gets word that his mother will come see him in Edo. To avoid her finding out that he's been wildly exaggerating his success, he enlists his buddies in a wild scheme to impersonate a samurai lord.

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

Romantic ninkyô yakuza film.

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 : Tatsuya Nakadai, Hiroki Matsukata, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Hiroko Sakuramachi,
Directors : Tadashi Sawashima,

This anthology tells three separate stories, all about yakuza (Japan's gangsters) in the feudal period. In the first, Sentaro, a roaming yakuza, seeks sanctuary with a gang which then asks ...

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Takashi Shimura, Hibari Misora, Yoichi Hayashi,
Directors : Tadashi Sawashima,

An above-average yakuza ninkyô

Actors : Komaki Kurihara, Tamaki Sawa, Toyoshi Kyomiae, Kin'ya Kitaôji,
Directors : Tadashi Sawashima,

Takeo (Kiniya), son of a wealthy car industry executive, is unhappy with his job and goes to Singapore to become a fisherman. At first ridiculed by the local fishermen, he eventually gets ...