Tatsuo Saitō Movies

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among...

In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.

A young man torn between love and friendship.

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

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

A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a...

A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.

The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...

1947 Japanese movie

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...

The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender. Their mission: produce an issue of the...

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...

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

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...

Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost 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...

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

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a...