Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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...

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’...

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

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

Silent jidaigeki released on New Year's Eve, 1926.

A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start...

Japanese film from 1934.

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

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

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...

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

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...

A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunited.

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

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...