Sanezumi Fujimoto

Sanezumi Fujimoto was a Japanese film producer. He served as the head of production for Toho Studios. He was co-producer of Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress. He also produced many other films, including Yasujirō Ozu's The End of Summer, Kihachi Okamoto's The Sword of Doom and Japan's Longest Day and several films directed by Mikio Naruse.
After co-producing The Hidden Fortress, Fujimoto had the task as Toho's head of production of convincing Kurosawa to form his own production company. He had to convince Kurosawa that his own production company would be to his advantage, even though the main reason Toho wanted Kurosawa to form his own production company was to avoid the risk of cost overruns as had happened on The Hidden Fortress. Fujimoto then became a board member of Kurosawa Productions.

Selected filmography

Repast, Mikio Naruse,
[Husband and Wife (film)|Wife (1953 film)|Husband and Wife], Mikio Naruse,
Mr. Pu, Kon Ichikawa,
Wife, Mikio Naruse,
Sound of the Mountain, Mikio Naruse,
Late Chrysanthemums, Mikio Naruse,
Floating Clouds, Mikio Naruse,
Sudden Rain, Mikio Naruse,
A Wife's Heart, Mikio Naruse,
Flowing, Mikio Naruse,
Song for a Bride, Ishirō Honda,
The Hidden Fortress, Akira Kurosawa,
A Daughter, a Wife, and a Mother, Mikio Naruse,
Sir Galahad in Campus, Toshio Sugie,
The Last War, Shūe Matsubayashi,
The End of Summer, Yasujirō Ozu,
A Wanderer's Notebook, Mikio Naruse,
Chūshingura, Hiroshi Inagaki,
Yearning, Mikio Naruse,
Godzilla vs. The Thing, Ishirō Honda,
The Crazy Adventure, Kengo Furusawa,
The Stranger Within a Woman, Mikio Naruse,
The Sword of Doom, Kihachi Okamoto,
Japan's Longest Day, Kihachi Okamoto,
Goyokin, Hideo Gosha,
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan, Masahiro Shinoda,
To Love Again, Kon Ichikawa,
Battle of Okinawa, Kihachi Okamoto,
The Wolves, Hideo Gosha,
The Gate of Youth, Kirirō Urayama,