Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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

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...

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...

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

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

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

Inochi uruwashi

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

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

1956 Japanese movie

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

Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the...

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.

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

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...