Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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...

A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.

Japanese silent film from 1929.

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

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

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

That Night's Woman

A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.

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...

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...

1956 Japanese movie

While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the...

Japanese silent drama from 1927.

Japanese silent film from 1928.

A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.

Japanese jidaigeki from 1927.

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

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...