Shūji Sano Movies

1962 Japanese movie

It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him...

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

In a corner of Tokyo, an old apartment housed the couple Sakaguchi Koyasu, a construction engineer, and Midori. According to Midori, Koyasu was a...

A melodrama set in Kuroshima.

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...

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

A countryside woman working as a maid gets scouted for a model job.

Coming of age/high school sports drama.

Yuzo Kayama visits New Zealand

A hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment of the Japanese doctor (Sano) who treats her...

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...