List of the best Kenji Sawada movies: Yumeji(1991), Mishima(1985), The Man Who Stole the Sun(1979), Samurai Reincarnation(1981) ... ...
Biography
Japan
1991
128 Minutes
Kenji Sawada Tomoko Mariya Masumi Miyazaki Tamasaburo Bando Yoshio Harada Kazuhiko Hasegawa Leona Hirota
Painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband's ghost and the jealous lover who murdered him.
Biography
USA|Japan
1985
120 Minutes
Ken Ogata Kenji Sawada Toshiyuki Nagashima
militia member soldier young man author general nationalist dark moving temple japan home downward spiral darkness nationalism literature tradition book rivalry 1970s
A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
Comedy
Japan
1979
147 Minutes
Bunta Sugawara Kenji Sawada Kimiko Ikegami Kazuo Kitamura Shigeru Kohyama Kei Satô
A high school science teacher builds an atomic bomb and uses it to extort the nation, but cannot decide what he wants. Meanwhile, a determined cop is catching up to him, as is radiation poisoning.
Action
Japan
1981
122 Minutes
Sonny Chiba Kenji Sawada Akiko Kana Ken Ogata Hiroyuki Sanada
The villain is called Amakusa Shiro Tokaisada. He is actually based on a real christian samurai. The movie was one of the inspirations for the game called 'Samurai Shodown' (actual spelling)