Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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

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 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.

In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.

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

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

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,...

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...

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

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

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

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...

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the...

A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.

A silent 3-reel comedy short that uses the 1933 film King Kong as a backdrop to the story. It was produced by Shochiku Studios (who released the...

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

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...

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...