Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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

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

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

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

Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved in a robbery of precious diamond.

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...

Japanese silent film from 1929.

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

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night,...

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

Japanese silent film from 1928.

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...

Japanese silent film from 1932.

On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the...

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...