Sanae Takasugi Movies

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law—descend into...

Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose...

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

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...

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

American Sergeant falls in love with a Japanese woman.

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.