Shūji Sano Movies

Battles of an average salaryman.

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

1962 Japanese movie

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

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...

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...

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...