Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take...

Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he...

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

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

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 young couple is harrased by an uncle.

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...

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

1956 Japanese movie

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...

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

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...

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

1956 Japanese movie

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...

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’...