Tatsuo Saitō Movies

A 1954 film.

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

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. This part is...

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

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

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...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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...

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

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

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

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...

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

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...

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

1945 Japanese movie

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