Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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.

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

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

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among...

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

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...

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...

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

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

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

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 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.

A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.