Masaaki Sakai

Teenage film

Comedy with music starring the rock band The Spiders.

In 1897, actor, director, producer and theatre company leader Kawakami Otojiro set off on a tour of the USA with his wife Sadayakko and theatre...

The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. In...

The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the...

Kazuo Kitagawa lives on a farm on the Tateshina Plateau with his late teacher's widow and daughter, continuing his research. One day, Kazuo is...

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and his friends decide to form a cool rock band, but a...

Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost after the accident and eventually decides to...

Mamoru Hirayama, the sales manager of Clover Shoji, a women's underwear manufacturer, was selected by President Usui to be the manager of the foreign...

Legendary singer Claire Emery flies to Japan for a final sold-out concert. But when the show ends, so does Claire’s life on earth. However, an...

The Spiders arrive back in Tokyo and end up in a car accident with a beautiful fan, Yuko, who the lead singers fall in love with while she...

A 1954 film.

A celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”. The film is interspersed with numerous funerals...

Thirteen years afterward, I wonder if those who bombed Hiroshima are looking at me and saying: 'We did it! We were able to kill another person!' They...

A gangster runs a budget nursing home.

The Satsuma clan conspires with key figures in the shogunate to overthrow the government. However, the head inspector, Naito Yamashiro no Kami,...

The one who hurriedly ascended the castle upon hearing news of Shogun Tsunayoshi's illness was Saotome Mondonosuke. However, instead of an illness,...

Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to...

An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing...

A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of his family, who are estranged from those...

A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity...

The Spiders, a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band, star. During their Asian tour spies try to smuggle plutonium hidden in The Spiders' guitar amps, but...

Gangsters smuggle diamonds through customs by embedding them in The Spiders' tambourine, then go on a cross-country chase of the rock-and-roll band...

A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing...

The Spiders, a Japanese pop group, in their first starring role, walk from Yokohama to Tokyo, to prove their love for a girl who told them "the...

Young men get together and dream of becoming a successful band, while a young woman (Masako Izumi) dreams of becoming a successful manager. Inspired...

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."

Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex...

Bored Hatamoto film

Today is a new day with hopes. A youth hymn that depicts a young truck driver growing up in love with a dream while being supported by his friends...

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to...

In the inner chambers of the Shugun's castle, 3,000 men attempt to vie for the affection of the female shogun. Based on the 4th-6th volumes in the...

1970 Japanese movie

Akio Tsukaro, dreaming of working for a beauty school's flag shop one day, stayed at Bunta Tadokoro without being involved in salon art, even though...

A film director plans to make a film about a man who embarks on a journey to find a missing musician, who has disappeared after becoming obsessed...

Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player....

Village Singers film

A two-hour drama starring Sachiyo Tōshu. It depicts the story of a widow who returns to work after a 15-year absence and strives to become...