Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.

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

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

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

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

"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...

Inochi uruwashi

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

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

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...

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

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

A Japanese film

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among...