Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

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

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will...

A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as...

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’...

1956 Japanese movie

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...

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

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

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

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