Tatsuo Saitō Movies

Hirano's wife Yasuko had grown weary of her life of poverty. Her feelings of dissatisfaction deepened when she met her elegantly dressed friend...

The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When...

In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister...

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.

Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.

Japanese silent film from 1931.

When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend Ryūtarō to reform it. Facing union...

A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

Keiko, Kirie, and Toshi, a trio of close friends, go their separate ways after graduation, vowing to hold a “New Wives’ Meeting”...

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.