Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

Detective Umon investigates a wave of counterfeit money in Edo linked to the murder of a mint official. His search leads him to a mysterious...

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

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...

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.

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 film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

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

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...

Bank robbers hide their loot in an underwater cave in a small fishing village, but the Ama (female divers) of the village suspect something and dive...

A Japanese film

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

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,...

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...

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

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

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