Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

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’...

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.

1961 Japanese movie

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...

Japanese war movie.

A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while...

It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him...

Raucous small-time thief Kenji falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, but when she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him until...

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

1956 Japanese movie

A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.