Asao Sano Movies

A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote...

Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, he hides his identity and saves his girlfriend's...

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.

A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's...

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes...

Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a...

In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her back to his family's inn to nurse her, but he...

TV movie based on the 1981 Fukugawa shopping street murders.

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

1961 Japanese movie

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

1962 Japanese movie