Asao Sano Movies

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...

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...

A 1960 crime film

Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.

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...

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

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...

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.

This film depicts the pure love between a girl raised by a strict father and a young man working in a small factory to support his family. The...

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...

The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but decided to leave after his best friend died a brutal...

Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.

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,...

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

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

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often...

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

Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong...