Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second...

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

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

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

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...

Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They help Ocho, who is a beautiful pickpocket when she...

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

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...

Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness....

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

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...

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

A 1937 Japanese film.

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,...

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

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.

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...