Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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...

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...

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...

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from Masao Kume's serialized newspaper novel.

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

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

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

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

That Night's Woman

Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut.

1945 Japanese movie

Japanese comedy film.

Swimmers Akio and Natsuko train hard for national competition while Natsuko struggles with family chaos — her father’s affair and her...

Japanese jidaigeki from 1927.

Japanese silent film from 1929.