Shūji Sano

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shūji Sano

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Kuwano

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shūji Sano

Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Shiraki

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masayuki Mori

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mariko Okada

Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teiji Takahashi

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Cast: Keiko Tsushima

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Daijirō Natsukawa

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

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Cast: Shūji Sano

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Coming of age/high school sports drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kensaku Morita

Japanese youth film.

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Cast: Akira Mita

A Japanes widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines of WW2.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Haruko Wanibuchi

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...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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Cast: Junko Ikeuchi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoko Aoyama

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

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Cast: Kakuko Chino

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sawada

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michiko Namiki

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mako Midori

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

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Cast: Shūji Sano

Japanese war movie.

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Cast: Mitsuko Mito

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

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...

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Cast: Michiyo Kogure

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Waiting woman

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Asagiri

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasuko Fujita

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Chiaki

A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for...

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Cast: Kaneko Fujiwara

This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940...

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Cast: Tomio Aoki

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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

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Cast: Hajime Asada

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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Cast: Shūji Sano

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Cast: Shūji Sano

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Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

1954 Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Shūji Sano

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Haruko Wanibuchi

A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began airing on Asahi TV in the second half of the...

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Cast: Shigeru Amachi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shūji Sano

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

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Cast: Kyōko Asagiri

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Haruko Wanibuchi

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...

Genre: Family

Cast: Chieko Matsubara

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

Daichi Tateharu who was an employee of the Mori Seisakusho has been recruited from Siberia, but the company changed its name to Toyo Denki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A year 's date has flowed since Toyoshi Daikichi was driven out of Toyo Electric. In the company Okazaki's plan steadily progressed, a capital...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Haruko Wanibuchi

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tatsuo Saitō