Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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...

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They help Ocho, who is a beautiful pickpocket when she...

1962 Japanese movie

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...

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp.

A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second...

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...

A 1937 Japanese film.

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

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...

Inochi uruwashi

Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut.