
Takeshi Sakamoto
Department: Acting
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Takeshi Sakamoto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

A Buddhist Mass for Goemon Ishikawa
1930

Mother is Strong
1939

There Was a Father
1942

I Was Born, But...
1932

Men Fighting Whales
1957

A Story of Floating Weeds
1934

Hotaru no hikari
1938

Yakuza of Seki
1963

Outlaw island
1956

Okashina yatsu
1963

Middle-Aged Man
1943

Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1947

Zoku aizen katsura
1939

An Inn in Tokyo
1935

What Did the Lady Forget?
1937

Kare to Tokyo
1928

Theater
1945

Here's to the Young Lady
1949

Carmen Comes Home
1951

A Hen in the Wind
1948

Every-Night Dreams
1933

Tokyo Chorus
1931

Boyhood
1951

Ornamental Hairpin
1941

King of the Land
1928

The Big City: Labor
1929

Passing Fancy
1933

Manchurian Sunset
1956

Utsukushiki Rinjin
1940

A Legend or Was It?
1963

Sailor
1944

Children in the Wind
1937

Woman in the Mist
1936

Sunny house
1954

The Tattered Wings
1955

Mother's Love Letter
1935

Housewife Camellia
1936

Otoko no iki
1942

Moon of the Plateau
1942

The Tokyo Kid
1950

A Straightforward Boy
1929

Haruko no ōen danchō
1962

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
1961

Sound in the Mist
1956

I Graduated, But...
1929

Daydream
1964

Don't Tell Your Wife About It
1937

A Boy and Three Mothers
1958

Hard Times
1930

Ballad of a Workman
1962

A Brother and His Younger Sister
1939

Port of Flowers
1943

Walk Cheerfully
1930

The Lady and the Beard
1931

Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
1932

Marching On
1930

The Boss's Son at College
1933

Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
1953

Okoto and Sasuke
1935

New Tokyo March
1953

So Goes My Love
1938

Sumida River
1942

A Certain Woman
1942

Street Without End
1934

Love and Power
1930

Where Chimneys Are Seen
1953

The Dancing Girl of Izu
1933

The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
1931

Burden of Life
1935

The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
1933

Tengoku no hanayome
1945

A Carpenter and Children
1962

Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
1965

Casebook of Detective Jiro Nango: Shadowless Murderer
1961

Ghosts Die at Dawn
1948

Family Diary
1938

The Genealogy of Women
1934

Family Meeting
1936

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha and the Girl of Osaka
1962

The Foster Mother
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
1957

Hobo Village
1958

Victory Song
1945

My Elder Brother
1934

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
1960

Goodbye to the Front
1937

Lady Doctor Kinuyo
1937

Days of Youth
1929

Four Seasons of Children
1939

Wood and Stone
1940

Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
1940

Carmen's Innocent Love
1952

Him, Her, and the Boys
1935

The Waves
1952

The Cock Crows Twice
1954

Hattari Seinen Shinshi
1961

Happy Times
1933

The Living Magoroku
1943

Japanese King Kong
1933

Young Miss Executive
1953

Growing Up
1955

Spring Comes from the Ladies
1932

An Innocent Maid
1935

The Luck Which Touched the Leg
1930

The Life of an Office Worker
1929

Pumpkin
1928

Wife Lost
1928

Lovers' Duet
1939

The Beauty Expert
1957

Introspection Tower
1941

Maria of the Ant Village
1958

The Spy Has Not Died Yet
1942

The Man Who Has Returned
1944

Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter
1932

The Tree of Love
1938

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
1941

The Dawning Sky
1929

The Capital of Love
1958

Untamed Woman
1957

Izu no musumetachi
1945

Warm Current
1939

The Masseurs and a Woman
1938

Fireworks Over the Sea
1951

Dreams of Youth
1928

Men vs. Women
1936

Physical Beauty
1928

College Is a Nice Place
1936

Twice on a Certain Night
1956

Twenty-Year-Old Youth
1946

Silver Stream
1931

Modan kaidan: 100,000,000 yen
1929

The Magical Warrior
1955

Hell's Kitchen
1962

The Princess and the Bearded Lord
1962

The Blacksmith of the Forest
1929

Our Chief, Our Doctor
1952

Beauty of Life
1951

Flowers of Patriotism
1942

I Want to Be a Shellfish
1958

Love
1933

At a Crossroads
1930

The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
1961

Dawn Chorus
1941

That Night's Woman
1934

Blackmail
1963

Over That Hill
1951

Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
1961

Midori naru hito: zenpen wakare no yogisha
1956

Midori naru hito: kōhen ai no honryū
1956

Hiroshi Moriya Sandogasa: I Want to Weep
1961

Hiroshi Moriya Sadogasa: Thank You, Sandogasa
1961

Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
1958

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
1943

桃色の超特急
1961

Fallen Samurai
1925

Flashing Blade
1926

Secret Struggle
1927

Magic
1927

Sankichi the Flying Squirrel
1927

What a Handsome Man!
1928

A Wife Quits
1928

Him and Life
1929

Triumphant Song of the Mountain
1929

The Father and His Son
1929

Youth, Why Do You Cry?
1930

Storm Zone
1932

Before the Wedding
1933

Farewell Tango
1949

Triumphant Song of Youth
1956

Daphne
1933

Mother of the East
1934

Honeymoon
1934

Spring Snow
1950

Seishun no oto
1956

Kigeki wa owarinu
1946