Shūji Sano Movies

Japanese war movie.

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

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

Coming of age/high school sports drama.

Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attempted surgery and years of struggle, her...

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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,...

Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is...

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...

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

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

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

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

1962 Japanese movie