Sanae Takasugi Movies

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...

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...

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

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...

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

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

Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta

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’...

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

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

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...

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

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

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.

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...

An adaptation of the famous novel by Jiromasa Gunji about the difficult story of Niiro Tsuruchiyo, the illegitimate son of the great elder of the...