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...

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...

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

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

Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura,...

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

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

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...

American Sergeant falls in love with a Japanese woman.

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

Depicts various relationships between four beautiful sisters, their husbands, and their second daughter's husband's mistress.

A young woman (Kuga), recuperating at a sanitarium in Karuizawa, falls in love with a young student (Ishihama) but returns to Tokyo to be with her...

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.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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

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

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’...

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.