Sachiko Hidari Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Hidari is a versatile Japanese actress who has appeared in a variety of films. She has played everything from an innocent, idealistic young girl to a hardened woman struggling to survive in the scorched ruins of postwar Japan. In 1963 she was awarded the prestigious Best Actress Award at the...Read More

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Sukiyaki

Synopsis: Referencing not the popular 1963 tune but the popular dish consisting of boiling beef and onions, Junichi Suzuki directs this low-key family drama about a Western-style restaurant called the Boston Grill in Yokohama's Isezaki-cho. The owner of the establishment is Hanako (Sachiko Hidari), who has Read More

1995
Tada Hitotabi No Hito

Actors: Sachiko Hidari

Synopsis: Tetsu Kato spins this tale of a down and out artist struggling to eat and cling to his artistic vision at the same time. Namihiko (Namihiko Omura) is a jazz shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) player desperately hustling to get a gig. His girlfriend is fed up with their perennial poverty, and Read More

1993
Harukoma No Uta

1986
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Actors: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Yasosuke Bando, Hiroshi Mikami, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Junya Fukuda, Shigeto Tachihara

Synopsis: In Paul Schrader's unusual biopic, Ken Ogata stars as Yukio Mishima, perhaps the most celebrated Japanese novelist of the last five decades. The film begins with Mishima's youth, then moves forward in episodic fashion to his 1970 suicide, symbolically committed at a military site. Originally Read More

1985
Toi Ippon no Michi

Actors: Hisashi Igawa, Sachiko Hidari, Kenji Isomura, Kyozo Nagatsuka

Synopsis: Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in the northern part of Japan. The ferocious local class restrictions work to keep her husband in his place, as does his lack of education. ~ Clarke Read More

1978
Double Suicide of Sonezaki

Actors: Hisashi Igawa, Sachiko Hidari

Synopsis: Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes Read More

1978
Barefoot Gen

Actors: Rentaro Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari

Synopsis: Gen is a Japanese pacifist, who teaches his children to treat Koreans as human beings, and not to take the fanaticism of the militarists to heart. When he is imprisoned, his children suffer at the hands of students and teachers, and the oldest boy resolves to enter the military to help erase some Read More

1976
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

Synopsis: The quest of a war-widow for the truth about her husband's death during World War II serves as the backbone for this film, which portrays the Japanese militarism of that time and the attitudes which gave rise to it. Though the government labelled her husband as a deserter, his widow does not Read More

1972
Bride of the Andes

Actors: Sachiko Hidari, Koji Takahashi

Synopsis: A young Japanese woman comes to Peru to marry a man she has never seen in this somber drama highlighted by cultural differences. Her husband is a first-generation Japanese and both are bound to the time-honored tradition of arranged marriages. Bringing her child from a previous marriage, she finds Read More

1966
The Scarlet Camellia

Synopsis: In this Japanese drama, a young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. First she torches her parents' villa, and then slaughters all her lascivious mother's lovers. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths Read More

1965
This Madding Crowd

Synopsis: In this interesting Japanese drama, a journalist travels to a tiny fishing village outside Tokyo to learn more about traditional customs and culture. There he carefully watches the locals going about their daily business. Among those observed are a recovered alcoholic caring for his crippled wife; Read More

1964
The Insect Woman

Actors: Sachiko Hidari, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Nagato, Seizaburo Kawazu, Kazuo Kitamura

Synopsis: The Insect Woman covers 45 years in the life of long-suffering Japanese woman Tome Matsuki, played brilliantly by Sachiko Hidari. Thrust into the cold world at age 20, the pregnant Tome takes a factory job. She gives this up for the relative comfort of the life of an American GI's mistress. Once Read More

1963
She and He

Actors: Sachiko Hidari, Eiji Okada, Kikuji Yamashita

Synopsis: Directed by Susumu Hani, this is the story of class barriers more than anything else. When the shacks next to a comfortable neighborhood are burned down, a young husband and wife discover that one of the victims was once a university student with the husband but has been living in poverty with a Read More

1963
Bakumatsu Taiyoden

1957