Tatsuo Saitō Movies

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...

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...

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with...

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

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...

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

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

University friends Ben and Shūichi unknowingly vie for the attention of the beautiful Chieko while on a skiing trip.

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.

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

Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with...

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

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...

1939 Japanese movie

Japanese war movie.

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.