Asao Sano
Bekend om: Acting
Verjaardag: 1925-08-13
Geboorteplaats: Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Jungle Block
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...
Vrijlating : 1960.06.15Populariteit : 1.211
Covered Wagon
A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's...
Vrijlating : 1960.10.22Populariteit : 2.806
The Diary of a Police Officer: The piggy bank is full
A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of eight policemen solve a series of unusual cases,...
Vrijlating : 1961.03.27Populariteit : 0.894
I Hate But Love
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote...
Vrijlating : 1962.07.09Populariteit : 4.453
Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the...
Vrijlating : 1956.01.29Populariteit : 2.962
Break Down that Wall
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Vrijlating : 1959.06.23Populariteit : 1.061
Cruel Story of Youth
A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
Vrijlating : 1960.06.03Populariteit : 6.839
Black River
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...
Vrijlating : 1957.10.23Populariteit : 5.819
Apart from Life
A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
Vrijlating : 1970.01.30Populariteit : 0.91
The Thick-Walled Room
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...
Vrijlating : 1956.10.31Populariteit : 6.958
Flesh Smuggling
A true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a sailor who embarked on a single underworld to...
Vrijlating : 1956.10.09Populariteit : 0.921
My Hobo
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...
Vrijlating : 1962.11.23Populariteit : 2.852
Birth of a Fighter
A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
Vrijlating : 1967.02.04Populariteit : 2.883
Girl in the Glass
The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits...
Vrijlating : 1960.11.09Populariteit : 0.532
Gun Demon Without Form
A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pursues the organizer of the arms trade route from...
Vrijlating : 1964.03.04Populariteit : 0.773
Sun and stars
It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and...
Vrijlating : 1962.07.01Populariteit : 0.319
Shadow Hunters
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,...
Vrijlating : 1992.04.08Populariteit : 3.15
Streetlights
A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.
Vrijlating : 1957.02.13Populariteit : 1.783
Quick Draw Sanshiro
Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!
Vrijlating : 1962.06.03Populariteit : 0.96
Teenage Wolf
In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl! A gloomy portrait of youth, in which...
Vrijlating : 1960.03.02Populariteit : 2.353
The Night is mine
Four criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape. However, one of them receives a bullet during a...
Vrijlating : 1958.07.13Populariteit : 0.712
Fearless Comrades
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...
Vrijlating : 1966.10.08Populariteit : 1.03
Black Strait
Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of...
Vrijlating : 1964.12.31Populariteit : 2.694
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 11 - The Ghost Story of Decapitation
Eleventh film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Vrijlating : 1971.09.19Populariteit : 1.623
Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.
Vrijlating : 1980.09.25Populariteit : 0.743
The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...
Vrijlating : 1968.03.01Populariteit : 4.425
The Blazing Valiant
Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living...
Vrijlating : 1981.12.19Populariteit : 3.989
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...
Vrijlating : 1950.06.15Populariteit : 3.41
How Sorrowful
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...
Vrijlating : 1956.09.07Populariteit : 3.324
I Have the Sun in My Back
Shigeru, a serious young man who works as a glass cleaner, has an older brother Kenzo, who has returned from prison. Kenzo was determined to become...
Vrijlating : 1963.04.07Populariteit : 5.097
The Ghost of Iwojima
The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...
Vrijlating : 1959.10.21Populariteit : 5.229
The Long Death
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large...
Vrijlating : 1964.04.12Populariteit : 3.951
Fires on the Plain
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...
Vrijlating : 1959.11.03Populariteit : 9.822
Season of the Sun
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...
Vrijlating : 1956.05.17Populariteit : 3.149
Hana to musume to shiroi michi
One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.
Vrijlating : 1961.03.06Populariteit : 0.832
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military...
Vrijlating : 1963.01.27Populariteit : 2.6
Gone in the Rain
Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from...
Vrijlating : 1963.03.17Populariteit : 0.58
The Incident
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...
Vrijlating : 1978.06.03Populariteit : 3.226
Teenage Yakuza
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
Vrijlating : 1962.06.20Populariteit : 1.55
The Last Samurai
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child....
Vrijlating : 1974.09.20Populariteit : 2.63
I'll Never Cry!
The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes...
Vrijlating : 1966.10.29Populariteit : 3.525
Blood Is Dry
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own...
Vrijlating : 1960.10.09Populariteit : 2.314
Cops vs. Thugs
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the...
Vrijlating : 1975.04.26Populariteit : 4.158
Deeper Than Blue
About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her...
Vrijlating : 1973.02.10Populariteit : 2.914
High-School Outcasts
Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a...
Vrijlating : 1970.12.16Populariteit : 0.557
Drunkard's Paradise
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...
Vrijlating : 1962.02.04Populariteit : 0.974
The Man with a Shotgun
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of...
Vrijlating : 1961.06.03Populariteit : 6.023
Permanent Blue
In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her back to his family's inn to nurse her, but he...
Vrijlating : 1976.09.23Populariteit : 1.474
A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.
Vrijlating : 1972.09.06Populariteit : 1.118
The Aesthetic Salon Murders 2
Iwatsuki Reiko, a writer for a weekly magazine goes on a trip to Amakusa, Kyushu with Yukitake Asami, the president of a company. Yukitake informs...
Vrijlating : 1998.12.26Populariteit : 1.236
Blood End
Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a...
Vrijlating : 1969.11.15Populariteit : 1.379
The Dragon of Macao
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...
Vrijlating : 1965.12.18Populariteit : 1.862
The Burmese Harp
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...
Vrijlating : 1956.01.21Populariteit : 11.771
May Love Be Restored
A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
Vrijlating : 1980.04.29Populariteit : 6.18
A Chain of Islands
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...
Vrijlating : 1965.05.26Populariteit : 1.665
The School Cap
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing...
Vrijlating : 1963.12.15Populariteit : 1.488
The Guys Who Put Money on Me
An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...
Vrijlating : 1962.12.09Populariteit : 4.273
A Warm Misty Night
When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously...
Vrijlating : 1967.03.11Populariteit : 2.391
The Heart of Hiroshima
One morning, Kazue is nearly knocked over by a motorbike in front of an instrument store, breaking all the records that she was carrying. The two...
Vrijlating : 1966.09.17Populariteit : 1.485
Miniature
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...
Vrijlating : 1953.04.01Populariteit : 1.695
Fighting Elegy
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...
Vrijlating : 1966.11.09Populariteit : 4.958
Tales of Ginza
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the...
Vrijlating : 1955.09.14Populariteit : 4.117
Passion and Rifle Bullets
Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.
Vrijlating : 1955.09.21Populariteit : 3.19
Kagero-za
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
Vrijlating : 1981.08.21Populariteit : 5.245
The Girl I Abandoned
Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he...
Vrijlating : 1969.09.03Populariteit : 3.959
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his...
Vrijlating : 1976.07.23Populariteit : 2.207
A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge
Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.
Vrijlating : 1964.12.19Populariteit : 1.129
Carmen from Kawachi
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming...
Vrijlating : 1966.02.07Populariteit : 1.984
The Empty Table
One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths....
Vrijlating : 1985.11.01Populariteit : 1.765
Gambler's Dilemma
The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.
Vrijlating : 1969.09.27Populariteit : 1.111
The Incorrigible
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
Vrijlating : 1963.09.21Populariteit : 3.091
I Want to Be a Shellfish
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...
Vrijlating : 1958.10.31Populariteit : 2.568
The Song of the Cart
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
Vrijlating : 1959.02.11Populariteit : 1.858