Asao Sano Movies

  • 1981
    The Blazing Valiant

    The Blazing Valiant

    The Blazing Valiant

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    Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living...

    The Blazing Valiant
  • 1973
    Deeper Than Blue

    Deeper Than Blue

    Deeper Than Blue

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    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...

    Deeper Than Blue
  • 1956
    The Thick-Walled Room

    The Thick-Walled Room

    The Thick-Walled Room

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    A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

    The Thick-Walled Room
  • 1963
    The School Cap

    The School Cap

    The School Cap

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    A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing...

    The School Cap
  • 1978
    The Incident

    The Incident

    The Incident

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    The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...

    The Incident
  • 1953
    Miniature

    Miniature

    Miniature

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    Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

    Miniature
  • 1966
    Carmen from Kawachi

    Carmen from Kawachi

    Carmen from Kawachi

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    Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming...

    Carmen from Kawachi
  • 1961
    The Man with a Shotgun

    The Man with a Shotgun

    The Man with a Shotgun

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    Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of...

    The Man with a Shotgun
  • 1959
    The Ghost of Iwojima

    The Ghost of Iwojima

    The Ghost of Iwojima

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    The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

    The Ghost of Iwojima
  • 1960
    Jungle Block

    Jungle Block

    Jungle Block

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    A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...

    Jungle Block
  • 1956
    How Sorrowful

    How Sorrowful

    How Sorrowful

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    The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

    How Sorrowful
  • 1964
    The Long Death

    The Long Death

    The Long Death

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    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...

    The Long Death
  • 1992
    Shadow Hunters

    Shadow Hunters

    Shadow Hunters

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    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,...

    Shadow Hunters
  • 1950
    Listen to the Voices of the Sea

    Listen to the Voices of the Sea

    Listen to the Voices of the Sea

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    This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

    Listen to the Voices of the Sea
  • 1957
    Streetlights

    Streetlights

    Streetlights

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

    Streetlights
  • 1967
    Birth of a Fighter

    Birth of a Fighter

    Birth of a Fighter

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    A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.

    Birth of a Fighter
  • 1976
    Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

    Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

    Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

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    Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his...

    Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
  • 1959
    Break Down that Wall

    Break Down that Wall

    Break Down that Wall

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    A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

    Break Down that Wall
  • 1962
    The Guys Who Put Money on Me

    The Guys Who Put Money on Me

    The Guys Who Put Money on Me

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    An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...

    The Guys Who Put Money on Me
  • 1969
    The Girl I Abandoned

    The Girl I Abandoned

    The Girl I Abandoned

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    Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he...

    The Girl I Abandoned