Tatsuo Saitō Movies

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...

A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenament called the Ryuheiso.

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

1947 Japanese movie

A young couple jump into the sea as part of a suicide pact. The man is rescued and subsequently discovers that his lover is also alive and working in...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start...

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

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...

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

That Night's Woman

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.

A hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment of the Japanese doctor (Sano) who treats her...

Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in...

A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.