Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

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.

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

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 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...

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

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

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

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

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...

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

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...

1956 Japanese movie