Shūji Sano Movies

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.

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

A small-time thug fresh out of prison is lured back onto the path of crime and joins a gang of safe-crackers.

Saeko Tachibana is a high school senior who lives with her mother. Playful yet somewhat lonely, Saeko was also an accomplished athlete who competed...

Japanese drama.

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

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

Film about the life of a bitter female reporter with a pure heart.

Based on a radio drama.

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...

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

A melodrama set in Kuroshima.

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Tokiko patiently awaits her husband's return from WWII when her four-year old son falls ill. She takes him to the doctor but has no means of paying,...

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...