Frankie Sakai Movies

Sixth entry in the Ekimae series, loosely based on the folktale of the tanuki and the tea kettle.

Japanese musical.

A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.

Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying saucer zooming through the night sky at super...

1962 Japanese movie

1972 Japanese movie

Daisuke and Shinichi are companions who frequent girlie shows and parties until they find out they are rivals bidding for control of a major resort...

The 22nd film in the Ekimae series about shop-owners living near Akabane Station, Tokyo.

A young girl travels to Ginza and fulfills her dream of singing to help the children of a poor orphanage and is mistaken for the missing...

The day has come for recruits to enlist in the Japanese Marine Corps. The recruits, who have left the free world to enter this strict military life,...

The 14th film in the Ekimae series, set in Nagano Prefecture, focusing on the love lives of a group of husbands and their wives.

1963 Japanese movie

Eighth in the Ekimae series, portraying competition between two hot spring resort owners in Yamanashi.

The Wolf of Davao, a death row inmate who escaped from prison to exact revenge on Yamanami Takuzo, who betrayed his former comrade, kidnaps Dr....