Takeshi Sakamoto

Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn't the most important man in his workplace.

A kabuki actor's mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover's son.

A schoolteacher struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, having neither money nor future prospects.

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son's hospital bills.

At a rural spa, a soldier accidentally cuts his foot on a hairpin. Soon enough he tracks down its lovely owner and finds himself smitten.

Two blind masseurs travel to a mountain retreat. One of them falls for a visiting lady from Tokyo and investigates a series of thefts.

A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she's a stripper.

A writer struggles to finish his story against many distractions, but the jazz party next door proves to be too much.

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong pers...

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

A widow life is left in turmoil when her childhood lover returns to town, left between the decision whether to go with him and start a new life in tokyo or settle down with her kindly brother-in-law, amidst a growing scandal that ...