Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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

Lost silent film

That Night's Woman

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

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 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...

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...

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...

A 1937 Japanese film.

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

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.

A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.

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

A silent 3-reel comedy short that uses the 1933 film King Kong as a backdrop to the story. It was produced by Shochiku Studios (who released the...

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunited.