Shūji Sano Movies

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

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...

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

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...

An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka...

Romantic comedy

Melodrama based on a novel by Yukio Mishima.

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...

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him...

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...