Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

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’...

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

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start...

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...

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

Lost silent film

Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he...

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

A silent 3-reel comedy short that uses the 1933 film King Kong as a backdrop to the story. It was produced by Shochiku Studios (who released the...

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

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...

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.

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...

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...