Movies: Takeshi Sakamoto

A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film....

A silent 3-reel comedy short that uses the 1933 film King Kong as a backdrop to the story. It was produced by Shochiku Studios (who released the original 1933 film in Japan on behalf of RKO). It is now considered to be a lost film....

1945 Japanese movie...

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man....

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A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second Sino-Japanese War....

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

Japanese comedy film....

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains. As for their parents, father was serving in the South Seas and mother died of illness on her way hom...

Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness. No.10 in the list of "The 10 best films of 1940" by Kinema Junpo....

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with the situation and neither is his family who do not...

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

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their stu...

1961 Japanese movie...

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose romantic lives intersect. (MoMA)...

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut...

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Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut....

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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 Kyoto, who divorced her father, but her father in Tokyo, who has another family, takes her to himself out ...