Tatsuo Saitō Movies

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 musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

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 hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment of the Japanese doctor (Sano) who treats her...

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...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

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...

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

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

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

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

A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.

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

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