Tatsuo Saitō Movies

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

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

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...

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

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...

A 1954 film.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

In Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise.

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

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...

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

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...