Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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

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

Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the...

A wandering swordsman helps a doll maker and his fiancée fight against a ruthless gang in a small town. As tensions escalate, epic duels and...

A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.

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

A Japanese film

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

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...

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

1962 Japanese movie

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

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous...

Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film.

Japanese silent film from 1932.

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who...

Hirano's wife Yasuko had grown weary of her life of poverty. Her feelings of dissatisfaction deepened when she met her elegantly dressed friend...