Shūji Sano Movies

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

Melodrama based on a novel by Yukio Mishima.

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

An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing...

1962 Japanese movie

A young woman (Kuga), recuperating at a sanitarium in Karuizawa, falls in love with a young student (Ishihama) but returns to Tokyo to be with her...

1954 Theater of Life adaptation.

A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will...

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...

1962 Japanese movie

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between...

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new...

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