Sanae Takasugi
Actor · 1918 – 1995 · Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
Movies22
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Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura, who owned a jade ring. If he failed to fulfill this condition, the inheritance would go to Chigusa instead.
Movie8.0WarIn 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor agrees to unconditional surrender. Under the supervision of the occupation forces the International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo to try the Japanese war leaders. Established in the cause of justice, and to prevent future aggressive wars the trials drag on for two and a half years. And on December 23, 1948, General Tojo and six other war leaders mount the thirteen steps to the gallows at Tokyo's Sugamo prison.
Movie7.2DramaTen 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 the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.
MovieRomanceDramaAmerican Sergeant falls in love with a Japanese woman.
Movie7.1DramaSetsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. But now he's back and Mariko tries to reunite them, although she too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.
Movie7.0RomanceDramaDepicts various relationships between four beautiful sisters, their husbands, and their second daughter's husband's mistress.
Movie5.8DramaAt 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 with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
Movie9.0Drama
Movie6.9DramaCrimeA group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.
Movie7.1DramaIn early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law—descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.
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This story depicts how a once-famous married couple of manga artists refused to be defeated by their current poverty.
MovieDramaA 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 father (Yamamura).
Movie
Movie8.0DramaA great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.
Movie6.1DramaRomanceReiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes dangerously obsessed with his unfaithful wife, Akiko.
Movie6.1DramaA man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
Movie9.0DramaShigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.
MovieDomestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
Movie5.3DramaA businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
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MovieDramaBased on Haruko Ōta's memoir.
Movie9.0ComedyIn a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.