Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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

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

Bank robbers hide their loot in an underwater cave in a small fishing village, but the Ama (female divers) of the village suspect something and dive...

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous...

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

Centered on a young college student who puts his youthful passion into developing true judo and the fiery mentor he admires and studies under.

Japanese film from 1934.

A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by the American occupiers of Japan following World War...

1961 Japanese movie

Produced by Shochiku’s all-star cast as a commemorative film to mark the completion of the “Shochiku Kaikan” in Tsukiji, Tokyo,...

1956 Japanese movie

Japanese war movie.

An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.

Inochi uruwashi

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddaughter, Madoka was ordered to be a new head. But...