Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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...

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

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

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

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

A Japanese film

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who...

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

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...

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...

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’...

Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

A wandering swordsman helps a doll maker and his fiancée fight against a ruthless gang in a small town. As tensions escalate, epic duels and...

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...