Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will...

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

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

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...

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

After the father of her son leaves her high and dry, Kazuko gives her child up for adoption and takes a job at a hot spring resort, watching her son...

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

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.

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

When noble wanderer Moritaro saves a disowned merchant’s son from gangsters, he becomes entangled in a town’s struggle against...

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 road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido.

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

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