Junji SakamotoFilmography

Occupation:
Director, Screenwriter

  • Children of the Dark

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Yosuke Eguchi, Aoi Miyazaki, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Koichi Sato, Praptpadol Suwanbang, Prima Ratchata

    Synopsis: Based on the controversial but commercially successful novel Blood and Bones by Japanese-Korean author Yan Sogil, writer/director Junji Sakamoto's confrontational drama examines the devastating plight of Thai children who have become hopelessly trapped in the machinations of child prostitution and Read More

    2008

  • Awaking

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Jun Fubuki, Yoshiko Mita, Haruko Kato, Akira Terao

    Synopsis: Her husband having recently suffered a fatal heart attack, a sheltered Japanese housewife attempts to make amends with the past while looking forward into the future in director/co-writer Junji Sakamoto's adaptation of Natsuo Kirino's novel Tama Mo E. Toshiko Sekiguchi (Jun Fubuki) wandered Read More

    2006

  • Kono Yo No Soto E

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Masato Hagiwara, Jô Odagiri, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Jun Murakami, Mitch

    2004

  • KT

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Koichi Sato, Kim Kab-soo, Kim Byong-se, Yoshio Harada, Choi Il-hwa

    Synopsis: Junji Sakamoto directs this taut spy thriller about the real-life abduction of Kim Dae Jung -- who would later be elected president of South Korea -- from a Tokyo hotel in 1973. Major Tomita (Koichi Sato) is a Japanese intelligence officer specializing in Korean matters. While tailing a North Read More

    2002

  • Bokunchi

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Arisa Mizuki, Yuma Yamamoto, Yuki Tanaka, Claude Maki, Ran Otori

    Synopsis: Directed by Junji Sakamoto, Bokunchi (My House) offers insight on living in a small, somewhat eccentric village from the perspective of a little boy. Based on a comic series by Rieko Saibara, seven-year-old Nita and his older brother Ita live within a fishing community, where they are cared for by Read More

    2002

  • Shin Jinginaki Tatakai

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Etsushi Toyokawa, Tomoyasu Hotei, Sho Aikawa, Ittoku Kishibe, Koichi Sato

    Synopsis: Two old friends on opposite sides of the law are brought together under dangerous circumstances in a taut gangland drama from Japan. Kaneo and Chan-ryon are two men who grew up rough on the streets of Okinawa; when Kaneo accidentally burned down the office of a local crime boss, Chan-ryon saved Read More

    2000

  • Face

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Naomi Fujiyama, Etsushi Toyokawa, Jun Kunimura, Kankuro Nakamura, Ittoku Kishibe

    Synopsis: Junji Sakamoto spins this tale of a socially inept yet indomitable woman searching for freedom and self-respect. Set in Kobe at the beginning of 1995, the film introduces Masako (Naomi Fujiyama), a withdrawn, middle-aged woman living above her mother's dry cleaning shop. She rarely leaves the Read More

    2000

  • Billiken

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The almost-forgotten Billiken rage hit Japan in 1908 -- it was a weird, American-imported, seated figure with a pointy head and pot belly that looked a bit like the Japanese god for fortune and luck that adorned many buildings of that era. Noted filmmaker Junji Sakamoto uses this ungainly icon to Read More

    1996

  • Tokarev

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Takeshi Yamato, Yumi Nishiyama, Koichi Sato

    Synopsis: The Tokarev, similar to a Magnum 45, is used to hold up a Japanese school bus. The driver's son is kidnapped for ransom. Takashi, the son, appears on video asking for the 10 million yen ransom. The ransom is paid but Takashi is found murdered in a garbage bag. His father, Michio takes matters into Read More

    1994

  • Tekken

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Junji Sakamoto follows up on his acclaimed boxing movie Dotsuitarunen with another boxing movie. The film centers on former pugilist (Bunta Sugawara) who in the throes of a midlife crisis decides to sell off his prosperous lumber company in order to manage full-time his boxing gym. He manages to Read More

    1991

  • Knockout

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Haruko Sagara, Akaji Maro, Yoshio Harada

    Synopsis: For real afficionados of the boxing game, this movie will be a treat, as it focuses almost exclusively on the sports career of a boxer who has been told by the doctors never to reenter the ring. He has suffered a serious brain injury, and it could mean his death. Nonetheless, he remains determined Read More

    1990

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