Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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

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...

Japanese film from 1934.

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

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

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

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...

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

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

Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...

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...