Tatsuo Saitō Movies

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.

When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a...

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.

Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with...

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

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

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...

Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journaist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to...

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

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

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

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

Lost silent film

A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of...

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2