Kyū Sakamoto

Acting

Kyū Sakamoto

Born 1941-12-10 · Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Acting credits

My Sweetheart poster
NR

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 star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.

My Sweetheart

1967

Awamori-kun nishi-e iku poster
9.0

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi

Awamori-kun nishi-e iku

1961

Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon poster
6.2

The story concerns a homeless boy named Ted. After seeing a movie about Gulliver he meets Professor Gulliver himself in a forest. Gulliver is now an elderly, space-traveling scientist. With Dr. Gulliver's assistant Crow, and Ted's companions, a talking dog and a toy soldier, they travel the Milky Way to the Planet of Blue Hope, which has been taken over by the Queen of Purple Planet and her evil group of robots. Armed with water-pistols and water balloons, which melt the villains, Ricky and Gulliver restore Blue Hope to its doll-like owners.

Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon

1965

Everything Goes Wrong poster
6.7

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.

Everything Goes Wrong

1960

King of the Highway poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

King of the Highway

1965

Battle Cry poster
5.9

During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight Imperial troops. But Sentaro's friendship with a pickpocket, who switches sides whenever it suits his needs, leads to complications that could cost Sentaro his life as they infiltrate enemy lines.

Battle Cry

1975

Kyū-chan ondo poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Kyū-chan ondo

1962

Keep Your Chin Up poster
8.0

Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and Ryoji demands that they be taken to a hospital, little dreaming that Nagai, the driver, is the official guardian of juveniles. The next morning the two boys hear a light knock, and Nagai's daughter, Noriko enters, but surprise is changed to fear as they see her father approaching with Kume, the Juvenile Officer. Their one thought is escape but Kyu discovers his leg is stiff and it pains him to move. In the excitement, he had not realized he had really been hit by the truck. He sends Ryoji away while he waits alone for Officer Kume. Nagai takes Kyu under his wing, while Ryoji finds himself again in the hard-boiled world.

Keep Your Chin Up

1962

Misandry poster
8.0

4 sisters inherited a sum of money and try to get married

Misandry

1964

Mr. Greenhorn poster
NR

1966 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Mr. Greenhorn

1966

Two People, Yet All Alone poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Two People, Yet All Alone

1962

Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi

1962

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox poster
8.0

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem...

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox

1961

Youth Season poster
10.0

1962 Japanese movie

Youth Season

1962

Let's Have A Dream poster
7.0

A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of money from Switzerland.

Let's Have A Dream

1967

Beyond the Hills poster
NR

Story of young love in the hills.

Beyond the Hills

1960

The Rockabilly Lady poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Rockabilly Lady

1960

Money Is Most Important poster
NR

A broke romantic and a practical young woman are pulled apart by money, matchmaking, and meddling families — only to find their way back to each other when all the schemes fall apart.

Money Is Most Important

1964

Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword poster
10.0

A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.

Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword

1963

An Urban Affair poster
7.0

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.

An Urban Affair

1961

見上げてごらん夜の星を poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

見上げてごらん夜の星を

1963

A good guy - A mischievous genius poster
NR

Fujishima Hiroshi (Kyu Sakamoto), a born "genius of mischief," joins a trading company in order to meet Nakahara Michiko (Kayama Yoshiko), a girl he has admired since his student days. However, he competes with his rival Kono (Tani Kanichi) to beat Michiko, and uses all sorts of business tactics to climb the corporate ladder in this salaryman screwball comedy.

A good guy - A mischievous genius

1965

Sad at Sixty poster
NR

A coming-of-age musical comedy directed by Hisashi Terashima, in his first year after promotion, with a screenplay by Fumi Takahashi of "New Couple's Reader: The Young Wife is a Popular Girl". Cinematography by Toru Watanabe of "Hit and Run Gang".

Sad at Sixty

1961

Awamori-kun kanpai! poster
NR

Second of the three Awamori-kun movies.

Awamori-kun kanpai!

1961