Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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...

1945 Japanese movie

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...

A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo,...

1961 Japanese movie

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...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him...

The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp.

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

1961 Japanese movie

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...

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...