Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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

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

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

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,...

After being discharged from the military, Kenzo, convinced of his older brother Kenichi’s innocence—who had been executed five years...

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to...

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

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

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

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...

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...

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

A Japanese film

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...

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