Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

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

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him...

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...

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

That Night's Woman

A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while...

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.

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

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.

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...

Lost silent film

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp.

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...