Shūji Sano Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

Based on a radio drama.

In the 15th year of the Meiji era (1882), Ōkuma Shigenobu, expelled from the Council of State by the Satsuma-Chōshō clique, poured his...

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

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

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

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

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

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

Japanese comedy film.

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...

Saeko Morita, travelling to the US with her father, is instantly drawn to Joji Miyagi, an elegant NAL steward. She learns that he has a complicated...

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