Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

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

A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo,...

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddaughter, Madoka was ordered to be a new head. But...

A film adaptation of the original novel by Kazuo Dan. This exciting film, set in Asia on the eve of violent changes, tells the story of a young man...

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

1962 Japanese movie

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.

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

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

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...