Shūji Sano Movies

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

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

Coming of age/high school sports drama.

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with...

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese youth film.

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

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

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been bapti...

Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notic...

Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is...

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

Japanese war movie.

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 “waiter” literally....

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 o...