Asao Sano Movies

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her...

1962 Japanese movie

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation...

Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of...

1962 Japanese movie

Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a...

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously...

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large...

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own...

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.

A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

1961 Japanese movie

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.

A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's...

In the middle of the Edo period, when the finances of the shogunate were in a desperate situation, the shogunate sent its shadow spies to each clan,...