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