Takeshi Sakamoto
Born: 1899-09-21 in Sakoshi, Hyogo, Japan
Died: 1974-05-17
Known For: 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.
Filmography
1964
- Day-Dream as Department store guard
1963
- A Legend or Was It?
- Yakuza of Seki
- Okashina yatsu as Kiichi Shuntô
- Blackmail
1962
1961
- Casebook of Detective Jiro Nango: Shadowless Murderer
- The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku as Matabei
- Hattari Seinen Shinshi
- Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
- Hiroshi Moriya Sandogasa Series: I Want to Weep as Akabeko Shosuke
- 桃色の超特急
- Hiroshi Moriya Sadogasa Series: Thank You, Sandogasa as Tetsunoya Tōzō (Boss)
1958
- Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
- Maria of the Ant Village
- I Want to Be a Shellfish
- City of Love as Eitaro Yoshii
- A Boy and Three Mothers as Seitaro Nakahara, Seiji's father
- Hobo Village
1957
- Untamed Woman as Kisuke, the foster father
- Times of Joy and Sorrow
- The Beauty Expert
- Men Fighting Whales
1956
1955
- The Tattered Wings as Fuyuko's father
- The Magical Warrior
- Growing Up
1953
1952
- Carmen's Innocent Love as Landlord's cousin
- Our Chief, Our Doctor as Tahei
- The Waves
1951
- Carmen Comes Home as Shoichi Aoyama
- Over That Hill
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Jinkichi Aikawa
- Boyhood as Furukawa
- Beauty of Life
1950
1949
- Here's to the Young Lady as Mr. Sato
- Farewell Tango
1948
- A Hen in the Wind as Hikozo Sakai
- Ghosts Die at Dawn as Policeman
1947
- Record of a Tenement Gentleman as Kawayoshi
1946
- Twenty-Year-Old Youth as Morita
1945
- Victory Song as Nobue's father
- Izu no musumetachi
- Tengoku no hanayome
- Theater
1944
- The Man Who Has Returned
- Sailor as Teacher (uncredited)
1943
- The Living Magoroku
- Port of Flowers
- Air Raid of the Enemy Plane as Fortuneteller
- Middle-Aged Man
1942
1941
- Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family as Antique Dealer
- Introspection Tower as Tamiko's Father
- Dawn Chorus
- Ornamental Hairpin
1940
- Utsukushiki Rinjin
- Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
- Wood and Stone as director of the arishima's hospital
1939
- Zoku aizen katsura
- Lovers' Duet as Rakugo-ka
- A Brother and His Younger Sister as Shinzō Arita
- Warm Current
- Four Seasons of Children as Grandfather
- Mother is Strong
1938
- The Masseurs and a Woman
- Family Diary as Policeman
- So Goes My Love as Shigeo's uncle
- The Tree of Love
- Hotaru no hikari
1937
- What Did the Lady Forget? as Sugiyama
- Don't Tell Your Wife About It as Mr. Kawada
- Children in the Wind as Uncle
- Lady Doctor Kinuyo as Tessai Yamaoka
- Goodbye to the Front
1936
- Men vs. Women
- Woman in the Mist as Fumikichi
- Family Meeting as Hanaju
- College Is a Nice Place as Teacher
- Housewife Camellia
1935
- Okoto and Sasuke as Seikichi
- Mother's Love Letter
- Burden of Life
- An Innocent Maid as Kihachi
- An Inn in Tokyo as Kihachi
- Him, Her, and the Boys as Tokochbi's Father
1934
- A Story of Floating Weeds as Kihachi
- The Genealogy of Women as Night Shop Master
- Street Without End as Guest for portrait painter
- My Elder Brother as Nagamatu, driver
- That Night's Woman
- Honeymoon
- Mother of the East as Yasukawa
1933
- Love
- The Dancing Girl of Izu as Hattori
- Happy Times
- The Boss's Son at College as Fujii's uncle Muraki
- The Bride Talks in Her Sleep as Thief
- Every-Night Dreams
- Before the Wedding as Kyōsuke Kawai
- Passing Fancy as Kihachi
- Daphne as Landlord
- Japanese King Kong as Yokoshima
1932
- I Was Born, But... as Juuyaku
- Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter
- Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? as College janitor
- Spring Comes from the Ladies as Sakaguchi, tailor
- Storm Zone as President Murase
1931
- Tokyo Chorus as Rou-Shain Yamada
- The Lady and the Beard as Karei
- The Neighbour's Wife and Mine as Driver
- Silver Stream
1930
- Love and Power
- Hard Times as Yoshida
- Marching On as Officer A
- A Buddhist Mass for Goemon Ishikawa
- The Luck Which Touched the Leg as Section chief
- Walk Cheerfully as Ono
- At a Crossroads
- Youth, Why Do You Cry? as Akazawa
1929
- Modan kaidan: 100,000,000 yen as Kunizo Ôhara
- The Father and His Son as Deputy Mayor Mizuhara
- The Blacksmith of the Forest as School Teacher
- I Graduated, But... as Secretary
- Days of Youth as Professor
- The Life of an Office Worker as Friend
- The Big City: Labor as Kasamatsu (engine driver)
- The Dawning Sky
- Triumphant Song of the Mountain as Uotoku
- A Straightforward Boy as Boss Gontora
- Him and Life
1928
- Physical Beauty
- Dreams of Youth as Okada's father
- Wife Lost as Uncle
- King of the Land as Kan-san (barber)
- What a Handsome Man! as Ōgane Arizō
- A Wife Quits as Hirano (husband)
- Pumpkin as Principal
- Kare to Tokyo
1927
- Secret Struggle
- Magic
- Sankichi the Flying Squirrel as Jin'emon Honjō
1926
1925
- Fallen Samurai as Loyalist Kato