Shiro Sano Movies

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...

A policewoman investigates the apparent suicide of a college coed. The prime suspects include the girl's professor, who may have been having an...

Scene one: March 11th, 2011. An earthquake and a tsunami strike the East coast of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. A man and five...

An NHK documentary about the talented actresses who have portrayed the beautiful, intelligent and resourceful heroines of the long running series....

Physician Koichiro Kiby loses interest in work and begins drinking in a local park after the death of his wife. One day he encounters a girl who...

"Okasan no Hibaku Piano" features a protagonist modeled after Mitsunori Yagawa, 67, a piano tuner who lives in Hiroshima's Asa-Minami Ward....

Based on the life of pioneering manga artist Shinichi Abe, "Miyoko asagaya kibun" starts from the 1970's in Asagaya District of Tokyo where Shinichi...

Remake of the 1961 Japanese war-comedy film Snow in the South Seas (Minami no Shima ni Yuki ga Furu).

A business man visits his hometown to search for a missing employee

A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world of Jissoji is brought back to life here!

A psychological thriller set in the post-COVID Tokyo. The film follows a woman looking for her missing son, and a shady young man who approaches her,...

Horror director Toshiharu Ikeda adapts a story by Baku Akae about a high-school student who falls in love with a woman on a school trip.

Film adaptation of an original story from Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Director and Akutagawa Prize winner Yuichi Seirai, directed by Taro Hyugaji,...

A biopic based on the production of Daiei's Giant Horde Beast Nezura, the scrapped precursor to Gamera.

Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his...