Takeshi Sakamoto Movies

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

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

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will...

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

1939 Japanese movie

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

Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They help Ocho, who is a beautiful pickpocket when she...

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

Silent jidaigeki released on New Year's Eve, 1926.

1961 Japanese movie

The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by the American occupiers of Japan following World War...