Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

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

University friends Ben and Shūichi unknowingly vie for the attention of the beautiful Chieko while on a skiing trip.

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

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...

Japanese war movie.

A ronin sets out on a journey with his horse, with no particular destination in mind. Re-released in 1953.

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

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

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko...

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...

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

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.

A private detective chases a female pickpocket into a film studio and dashes through the sets. With special appearances by a star-studded cast.