Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

Inochi uruwashi

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...

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

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

A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start...

Lost silent film

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...

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous...

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.

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...

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.

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.

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...

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...