Sanae Takasugi

Oh, My Son! (1979)

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families. ...

Between Women and Wives (1976)

Depicts various relationships between four beautiful sisters, their husbands, and their second daughter's husband's mistress. ...

Aruhi watashi wa (1967)

The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between parents and children over two generations, as well as the sisterly love between Yuriko and her sister Kaori. ...

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal (1959)

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and ...

Elegy of the North (1957)

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes dangerously obsessed with his unfaithful wife, Akiko. ...

The Wolves (1955)

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families. ...

Japan Samurai: Niiro Tsuruchiyo (1955)

An adaptation of the famous novel by Jiromasa Gunji about the difficult story of Niiro Tsuruchiyo, the illegitimate son of the great elder of the Bakumatsu era, Ii Naosuke. This masterpiece depicts the suffering and love of Tsuruchiyo, who never knew his f ...

Turbid Youth (1954)

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry. ...

The Valley Between Love and Death (1954)

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair. ...

Hiroba no kōdoku (1953)

Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta ...

A Japanese Tragedy (1953)

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that ...

Wife (1953)

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is ...

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu (1953)

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation. ...

Bored Hatamoto Passes By (1953)

Bored Hatamoto movie #14 ...

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu (1952)

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation. ...

Wedding March (1951)

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa ...

The Munekata Sisters (1950)

Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. But now he's back and Mariko tries to reunite them, although s ...

Kekkon Sanjûshi (1949)

Women of the Night (1948)

In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law—descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons. ...

Family Diary (1938)

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others' families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start... ...

Hotaru no hikari (1938)

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their student l ...

So Goes My Love (1938)

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with the situation and neither is his family who do not appr ...

Vermilion and Green (1937)

A businessman's daughter falls in love with one of her father's employees. ...

Moon Over the Ruins (1937)

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song. ...

Family Meeting (1936)

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life. ...

College Is a Nice Place (1936)

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film. ...

Okoto and Sasuke (1935)

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Junichiro. ...

Mother's Love Letter (1935)

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school. ...

Eclipse (1934)

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the law ...

Osayo Koi Sugata (1934)

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble paying his bills, is the girl Saya who becomes the model for his novel. Saya however is in love with a young dr ...

Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (1934)

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko's sister Kyouko has a breakup with her husband and returns home. Kyouko is clearly intereste ...