Tatsuo Saitō Movies

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

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a...

In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines, and Tokyo was reduced to a sea of...

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

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

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

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

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

That Night's Woman

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of...

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.