Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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...

On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the...

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

1956 Japanese movie

Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut.

A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while...

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...

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,...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

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

A 1937 Japanese film.

Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness....