Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunited.

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

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

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

A period drama about samurai who survived a loss in battle. An early jidaegeki by Hiroshi Shimizu.

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...

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by the American occupiers of Japan following World War...

Silent jidaigeki released on New Year's Eve, 1926.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent...

It is considered to be a lost film.

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They help Ocho, who is a beautiful pickpocket when she...

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

Swimmers Akio and Natsuko train hard for national competition while Natsuko struggles with family chaos — her father’s affair and her...

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.