Shūji Sano

The Beauty in the Bathroom (1978)

A magician who targets the Yucun family, who obtain huge wealth through gemstones. ...

A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (1977)

A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity. ...

Statue in Fire (1974)

Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983). ...

Woman Boss (1970)

Fight for the Glory (1969)

Coming of age/high school sports drama. ...

Sky Scraper! (1969)

A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan. ...

Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi (1968)

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki. ...

The Sands of Kurobe (1968)

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave ...

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. ...

Our Young World of Music (1966)

Japanese youth film. ...

That Complicated Guy (1966)

Melodrama based on a novel by Yukio Mishima. ...

Pretty Devil Yoko (1966)

Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be is an acquaintance who tries to rape her, and the typically bland but very-good-here the first boyfriend. ...

Here Because of You (1964)

An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing up in modern times, students often look to Mr. Yabuki for advice and guidance. But when Mr. Yabuki's caree ...

Naite waratta hanayome (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Hadashi no hanayome (1962)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Zoku aizen katsura (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Mount Hakone (1962)

Japanese drama. ...

San'nin musume kanpai! (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

August Moon (1962)

The Injured Boy (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Flower in a Storm (1962)

1962 Japanese movie. ...

Dolls floating down the river (1962)

A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi bina", which absorbed the customs of the Tottori region. ...

Haru no sanmyaku (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Till Tomorrow Is (1962)

Natsuko's daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attempted surgery and years of struggle, her condition proves permanent. Growing up, she faces stigma and danger but eventually finds hope and love with a fellow ...

Shadow of a Flower (1961)

The Conspirator (1961)

Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga, provides little happiness. His manipulative mother adds further complications through her constant interference ...

Love and the Shop Curtain (1961)

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the '64 Tokyo Olympics. Maki, the son of the owner of the Benten Hotel, likes Yuri and wants to get closer to her. S ...

Spring Dreams (1960)

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends. ...

Tokyo Omnibus (1959)

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of ...

Thus Another Day (1959)

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man... ...

Maria of the Ant Village (1958)

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vag ...

The Snowy Heron (1958)

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her. ...

Men Fighting Whales (1957)

A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will have to face a giant, monstrous whale. ...

The Horse Boy (1957)

A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the child, now a stable boy, is reunited with his father, but feudal codes threaten their happiness. Uchida's poignant masterpiece condemns the inflexible class ...

Typhoon Furor (1956)

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new one. ...

Twice on a Certain Night (1956)

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn. ...

Wedding Day (1956)

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as a writer and Sakie, his daughter, finding a suitable match, while the ...

Young Tree (1956)

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds. ...

Sudden Rain (1956)

Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki's marriage has gone stale, with both constantly arguing over what to do on a day off, or about her cutting out recipes from the newspaper before he finishes reading it. Their animosities are witnessed by Fumiko's niece Ayako, wh ...

The Maid's Kid (1955)

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, experiencing things that will change her view on life. ...

All is Well 2 (1955)

A year 's date has flowed since Toyoshi Daikichi was driven out of Toyo Electric. In the company Okazaki's plan steadily progressed, a capital increase was also made to strengthen the voice. Daikichi, who knew about it, had been buying Toyo Electric shares ...

All is Well (1955)

Daichi Tateharu who was an employee of the Mori Seisakusho has been recruited from Siberia, but the company changed its name to Toyo Denki Seisakusho, and the president Shingo Mori was the general affairs manager. ...

The Moon Has Risen (1955)

Mokichi Asai is a widowed father living in Nara with three daughters—Chizuru, Ayako, and Setsuko. The youngest, Setsuko, plays matchmaker for her older sisters, leading to humorous and awkward romantic entanglements. ...

The Cock Crows Twice (1954)

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves. ...

Jinsei Gekijo Yokubo hen: sanshu kirako (1954)

1954 Theater of Life adaptation. ...

An Inn at Osaka (1954)

Follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. ...

Love Letter (1953)

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko. ...

Mole Alley (1953)

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writ ...

Kare o korosu na (1952)

Kyōshū (1952)

Our Chief, Our Doctor (1952)

It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him the nickname 'the pork cutlet prince' ('Tonkatsu Taisho', the film's Japanese title) from the affectionate re ...

Early Summer (1951)

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Nori ...

Carmen Comes Home (1951)

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist. ...

Crazy Uproar (1950)

Also known as Crazy Uproar. ...

Spring Snow (1950)

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not easy. ...

First Love Questions and Answers (1950)

Here's to the Young Lady (1949)

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage. ...

The Bridal Night Again (1949)

A 1949 Japanese film. ...

A Hen in the Wind (1948)

Tokiko patiently awaits her husband's return from WWII when her four-year old son falls ill. She takes him to the doctor but has no means of paying, so she resorts to prostitution. A month later, her husband returns to find his desperate wife, who tells hi ...

Waiting Woman (1946)

Waiting woman ...

Iki na fûraibô (1946)

A lost film by Masahiro Makino ...

Tengoku no hanayome (1945)

1945 Japanese movie ...

Soyokaze (1945)

Otome no iru kichi (1945)

Japanese war movie. ...

Victory Song (1945)

An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort. ...

Army (1944)

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition. ...

The Man Who Has Returned (1944)

Flowers of Patriotism (1942)

A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second Sino-Japanese War. ...

A Certain Woman (1942)

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige meets her old love ten years later, she is able to forg ...

Moon of the Plateau (1942)

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains. As for their parents, father was serving in the South Seas and mother died of illness on her way home. So, ...

There Was a Father (1942)

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects. ...

Suzhou Nights (1941)

A hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment of the Japanese doctor (Sano) who treats her wards. Disease outbreaks and family obligations, however, threaten to torpedo their budding romance. ...

Let's Go in Good Spirits (1941)

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means "waiter" literally. They are doing odd jobs in the company including serving tea, ushering visitors, buying tobacco, etc. O ...

Kokumin no chikai (1938)

This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940 in Japan which however were cancelled because of the Japanese-Chinese war. A Japanese production, it was n ...

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 ...

Queen of the Wind (1938)

A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for special training and the man tries to get the general manager to send his girlfriend since this training wou ...

The Trio's Engagements (1937)

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu. ...

Forget Love for Now (1937)

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess. ...

The Golden Demon (1937)

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becomes a miser. ...

A Star Athlete (1937)

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute. ...

What Did the Lady Forget? (1937)

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to ...

Song of the Flower Basket (1937)

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo. ...

Moon Over the Ruins (1937)

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

The New Road: Akemi (1936)

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told from the perspective of Akemi. ...