Tatsuo Saitō Movies

A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off...

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

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...

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

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

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

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...

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

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...

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

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

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...

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes...

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

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