Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...

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

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in...

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

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

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

Inochi uruwashi

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

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...

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

A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as...

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.

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...

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

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’...

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

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 student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.

A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddaughter, Madoka was ordered to be a new head. But...