Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. 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...

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...

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.

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

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

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

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

1945 Japanese movie

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.

Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved in a robbery of precious diamond.

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

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.

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to...