Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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

At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice,...

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 geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.

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

Swimmers Akio and Natsuko train hard for national competition while Natsuko struggles with family chaos — her father’s affair and her...

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

1962 Japanese movie

1956 Japanese movie

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

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...

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

This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a...

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...

A Japanese film

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

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

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

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