Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.

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...

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

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

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

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

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.

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...

1956 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

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 woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...

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

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...

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...