Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...

A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunited.

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

Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film.

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.

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

When noble wanderer Moritaro saves a disowned merchant’s son from gangsters, he becomes entangled in a town’s struggle against...

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

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...

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

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

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

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in...

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a...

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Japanese film from 1934.