Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while...

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.

1956 Japanese movie

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...

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...

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.

A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunited.

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

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...

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

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

That Night's Woman

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

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

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

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...

Lost silent 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...