Shūji Sano Trailers
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The Beauty in the Bathroom TrailerA Tale of Sorrow and Sadness TrailerStatue in Fire Trailer
Total trailers found: 100
16 November 1938
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 in Japan which however were cancelled because of the Japanese-Chinese war.
29 October 1942
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs.
05 February 1956
Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso.
14 May 1969
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
23 October 1967
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 parents and children over two generations, as well as the sisterly love between Yuriko and her sister Kaori.
01 May 1941
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.
01 July 1937
Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.
08 November 1961
Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga, provides little happiness.
01 May 1937
During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute.
18 July 1937
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
14 January 1937
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
08 June 1958
Matsuki, a former war photojournalist, returns home and starts a modest life with his wife, Komiko. Driven by his passion for capturing the truth, he takes on daring assignments that impress many, though his risky work worries his wife.
09 March 1949
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
12 November 1942
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 Sino-Japanese War.
21 March 1951
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.
14 September 1954
1954 Theater of Life adaptation.
15 February 1952
It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him the nickname ‘the pork cutlet prince’ (‘Tonkatsu Taisho’, the film’s Japanese title) from the affectionate residents of the tenement in which he lives.
03 January 1960
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 friends.
23 May 1964
An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr.
01 April 1942
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
28 December 1974
Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).
10 February 1962
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attempted surgery and years of struggle, her condition proves permanent.
03 March 1937
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka.
21 May 1977
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
14 January 1956
Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki's marriage has gone stale, with both constantly arguing over what to do on a day off, or about her cutting out recipes from the newspaper before he finishes reading it.
03 October 1951
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28.
19 December 1956
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 one.
19 March 1966
Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun.
14 May 1942
An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains.
17 February 1938
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 special training and the man tries to get the general manager to send his girlfriend since this training would help them to start their own business.
01 March 1968
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam.
29 December 1941
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 wards.
17 September 1948
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, so she resorts to prostitution.
20 April 1954
Follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office.
30 November 1936
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.
29 November 1958
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 catches up to her.
22 February 1945
An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.
05 January 1937
Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.
07 December 1944
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.
27 September 1959
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 their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man.
13 December 1953
Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko.