Shūji Sano Movies

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

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...

Waiting woman

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.

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

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...

Coming of age/high school sports drama.

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...

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

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...

Japanese youth film.