Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

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

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...

During the Depression, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is sacked for defending an older colleague.

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

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 young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo,...

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

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

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

An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and...

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

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