Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

Japanese silent film from 1929.

A period drama about samurai who survived a loss in battle. An early jidaegeki by Hiroshi Shimizu.

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

1961 Japanese movie

Japanese silent drama from 1927.

Hirano's wife Yasuko had grown weary of her life of poverty. Her feelings of dissatisfaction deepened when she met her elegantly dressed friend...

Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut.

Japanese silent film from 1928.

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

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

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...

1939 Japanese movie

1945 Japanese movie

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

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...

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

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...