Shūji Sano
Birthday: 1912-10-20
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Shūji Sano (October 10, 1912 – December 21, 1978) was a Japanese actor active from 1936 to 1977. A popular star of the Shōchiku film studios, he is best known for his appearances in the films of Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita, Heinosuke Gosho, and Hiroshi Shimizu.
Movies
Wedding Day
Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a leth...
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Spring Snow
The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries ...
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There Was a Father
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither...
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Men Fighting Whales
A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the bes...
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As Long as There's Tomorrow
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attemp...
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Dolls floating down the river
A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chiek...
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The Beauty in the Bathroom
Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began...
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Mole Alley
33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 1...
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What Did the Lady Forget?
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niec...
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Here's to the Young Lady
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an au...
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Carmen Comes Home
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware tha...
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A Hen in the Wind
Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son b...
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The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for th...
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An Inn at Osaka
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from...
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A Star Athlete
During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is test...
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Forget Love for Now
Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess....
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Queen of the Wind
A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The c...
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Kokumin no chikai
This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to crea...
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A Certain Woman
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a nu...
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Moon of the Plateau
An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (T...
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The Trio's Engagements
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japane...
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Aruhi watashi wa
The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriag...
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Sky Scraper!
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan....
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Love and the Shop Curtain
Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan...
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So Goes My Love
Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better ...
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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a ...
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Love Letter
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letter...
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Spring Dreams
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home...
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The Conspirator
Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, dau...
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The New Road: Akemi
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow ari...
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Sudden Rain
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity....
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Here Because of You
An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teac...
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Thus Another Day
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. Sh...
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The Horse Boy
A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the c...
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The Moon Has Risen
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple sin...
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The Maid's Kid
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akit...
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The Snowy Heron
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. ...
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Suzhou Nights
A hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment...
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The Golden Demon
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playbo...
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The Cock Crows Twice
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves....
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Song of the Flower Basket
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi...
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Tokyo Omnibus
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who ru...
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Army
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's...
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Young Tree
A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cul...
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Maria of the Ant Village
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young ...
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Statue in Fire
Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band T...
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Twice on a Certain Night
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who...
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Pretty Devil Yoko
Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Toky...
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Our Chief, Our Doctor
It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanes...
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Let's Go in Good Spirits
In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were cal...
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Typhoon
A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been...
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Flowers of Patriotism
A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made po...
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Koi no gashū
Taiji (Kawazu Yusuke), who works at Noble Cosmetics, wants to marry his girlfriend Tomie (Kuwano Miy...
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Go and Get It
Matsuki, a former war photojournalist, returns home and starts a modest life with his wife, Komiko. ...
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Taiyou wo Daku Onna
A countryside woman working as a maid gets scouted for a model job....
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Rakuten fujin
In a corner of Tokyo, an old apartment housed the couple Sakaguchi Koyasu, a construction engineer, ...
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