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Takeshi Sakamoto (坂本武, Sakamoto Takeshi, 21 September 1899 – 10 May 1974) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1925 and 1965, mostly in productions of the Shōchiku studio. He gained popularity as a supporting character, working for directors such as Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita, Mikio Naruse, Hiroshi Shimizu and Heinosuke Gosho.
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19 July 1929
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.
29 October 1942
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs.
13 September 1961
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 an illegitimate son to a Shogun as a "gift of hope" to the sad boy.
21 November 1935
An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and befriends a woman and her daughter, who are in a similar predicament.
18 April 1935
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
17 February 1954
On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens.
18 November 1943
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.
29 April 1937
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog.
02 February 1933
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl.
28 June 1945
Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.
25 October 1929
When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities.
06 September 1955
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 is attacked by Ronin.
03 April 1952
Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.
07 March 1930
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 the local squire, who introduces the lad to her pilot brother and his flying officer friends; through hard work, and despite the handicap of a lowly class status, he eventually succeeds in qualifying as a pilot and joining the air force.
15 June 1935
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant.
14 February 1931
Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame.
09 November 1933
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son.
09 July 1942
This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a little bit of sadness in the film (as the war was getting worse and worse, the burdens on our backs were increasing day by day, and we had to keep forming a line for tomorrow with nowhere to go (Akira Kurosawa's "The Most Beautiful", Admiral Nomura's "Enemy Air Raid", etc.
06 September 1929
Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the fact that he has no job.
01 December 1925
A period drama about samurai who survived a loss in battle. An early jidaegeki by Hiroshi Shimizu.
03 April 1936
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
10 November 1928
Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.
05 January 1929
A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons.
14 January 1933
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 early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict.
05 March 1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
09 March 1949
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
11 February 1932
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 Sone family.
10 April 1965
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
12 November 1942
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 Sino-Japanese War.
14 April 1938
Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms.
19 April 1961
Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut.
01 December 1928
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 by trying his own hand as a painter.
21 November 1956
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover.
21 March 1951
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.
12 June 1941
A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.
01 August 1940
Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness.
29 September 1938
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married.
07 February 1962
A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.
01 April 1939
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 to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.
12 May 1951
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
24 November 1929
A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.
15 February 1952
It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him the nickname ‘the pork cutlet prince’ (‘Tonkatsu Taisho’, the film’s Japanese title) from the affectionate residents of the tenement in which he lives.
26 April 1934
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.
18 September 1956
A film adaptation of the original novel by Kazuo Dan. This exciting film, set in Asia on the eve of violent changes, tells the story of a young man Rinnosuke Date, who, following his dream, love and passion, breaks through the blood- and dust-drenched land of Manchuria with a pistol in a piercing wind.
22 February 1934
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The Romance of Yushima.
07 September 1933
In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take her in.
