Movies: Shirō Sano

  • 1992
    The Rocking Horsemen

    The Rocking Horsemen (1992)

    The Rocking Horsemen

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    It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town ...

    The Rocking Horsemen
  • 2006
    Vanished

    Vanished (2006)

    Vanished

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    Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make their greatest dreams come true. But, they soon discover that mistakes may cost them more than even their dreams could tell....

    Vanished
  • 1994
    The Most Terrible Time in My Life

    The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994)

    The Most Terrible Time in My Life

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    Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. Through a series of double-crosses Hama gets embroiled in a gang war and a revenge plot betwee...

    The Most Terrible Time in My Life
  • 2008
    The Taste of Fish

    The Taste of Fish (2008)

    The Taste of Fish

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    It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market is where you're most likely to find them. It's the home of Japan's biggest daily fish auction, ...

    The Taste of Fish
  • 1993
    Haruka, Nostalgia

    Haruka, Nostalgia (1993)

    Haruka, Nostalgia

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    Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author's real name....

    Haruka, Nostalgia
  • 2005
    The Suspect: Muroi Shinji

    The Suspect: Muroi Shinji (2005)

    The Suspect: Muroi Shinji

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    One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro (Toshio Kakei) and Okita (Miki Maya)...

    The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
  • 2024
    Happyend

    Happyend (2024)

    Happyend

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    A near-future Tokyo awaits destruction as the city is rocked by a series of foreshocks that predict a larger, more disastrous quake on the horizon. With the anxiety looming over them, a group of teenage best friends and musicians get into typical tee...

    Happyend
  • 2014
    Kinki

    Kinki (2014)

    Kinki

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    A teacher is sexually involved with an underage student. She visits her father's home and discovers a boy who's been kept as a sex slave. The teacher continues harboring the boy out of fear and begins to feel sexually attracted to him....

    Kinki
  • 2009
    The Triumphant Return of General Rouge

    The Triumphant Return of General Rouge (2009)

    The Triumphant Return of General Rouge

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    A year after the celebrated cracking of “The Glorious Team Batista” case, the talented medical staff at Tojo University Hospital once again finds itself embroiled in a web of intrigue and scandal.The scandal occurs this time in the ER when a mysterio...

    The Triumphant Return of General Rouge
  • 2004
    Perfect Education 6

    Perfect Education 6 (2004)

    Perfect Education 6

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    Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mrs. Hosoi who offers him 5 million to murder her husband. Fumiya has no choice but to kill Mr. Hosoi. Unfortunately he's see by a neighbor. In the esca...

    Perfect Education 6
  • 2023
    Between the White Key and the Black Key

    Between the White Key and the Black Key (2023)

    Between the White Key and the Black Key

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    In an audacious reworking of the biopic, this ensemble drama sees jazz pianist Minami Hiroshi’s memoir cleverly reinterpreted into a surreal and playful story about chasing dreams, disillusionment and the inner lives of professional artists. Closer t...

    Between the White Key and the Black Key
  • 2011
    Wasao

    Wasao (2011)

    Wasao

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    Wasao, an Akita dog in Aomori Prefecture that became famous as an ugly-yet-cute dog from a traveller's blog. Heartwarming drama starring Wasao himself turns part of the life of this former stray into an original story. Setsuko, who runs a grilled-squ...

    Wasao
  • 2003
    The Negotiator

    The Negotiator (2003)

    The Negotiator

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    After a convenience store robbery, three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital. Inspector Ishida and Captain Tohno handle the negotiations while one of their colleagues, Lt. Ando, tries to find out why the men decided to take ...

    The Negotiator
  • 2024
    Silence of the Sea

    Silence of the Sea (2024)

    Silence of the Sea

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    The last years of a painter, a tattoo artist, and a man who always pursues beauty regardless of authenticity. Why does the man insist that even his forgeries are true works of art?...

    Silence of the Sea
  • 2016
    The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

    The Woman Who Took the Local Paper (2016)

    The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

    6.52016HD

    A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the local newspaper of Kanazawa, saying she wants to read the novel serialized in it by Ryuji Sugimoto. How...

    The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
  • 2019
    An Artist of the Floating World

    An Artist of the Floating World (2019)

    An Artist of the Floating World

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    In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into WWII....

    An Artist of the Floating World
  • 1992
    Sosuke Loses His Lover

    Sosuke Loses His Lover (1992)

    Sosuke Loses His Lover

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    Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe....

    Sosuke Loses His Lover
  • 1993
    The Anthropology of a Fight Scene

    The Anthropology of a Fight Scene (1993)

    The Anthropology of a Fight Scene

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    A man must overcome many obstacles as he works his way through the dangerous crime world to the level of yakuza....

    The Anthropology of a Fight Scene
  • 1988
    Tomorrow

    Tomorrow (1988)

    Tomorrow

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    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 people in Nagasaki the day before that fateful event. It presents the human drama of people's lives, and ...

    Tomorrow
  • 2015
    Police Precinct Soul

    Police Precinct Soul (2015)

    Police Precinct Soul

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    A young woman is discovered strangled to death at the boat pier in Tokyo. There are no signs of disturbed clothing and assault, and because the body was abandoned at a prominent spot, it shows that this was a premeditated crime by a criminal with the...

    Police Precinct Soul