Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

Japanese war movie.

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

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...

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko...

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to...

A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in...

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

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...

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

1961 Japanese movie

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...

1939 Japanese movie

When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a...

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.