Tatsuo Saitō Movies

During the Depression, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is sacked for defending an older colleague.

In a household of three the husband is a salaryman who lives with his younger sister and wife in Tokyo. He is returning home late in the evenings...

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

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...

After a successful fashion designer receives a disturbing package, a series of bizarre murders begins to claim the models around her. As rumours of a...

Japanese Warmovie

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...

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

Released on the same date as Shochiku's version.

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 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 middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

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,...

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...

An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.