Tatsuo Saitō Movies

Set in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge to be friends. But when a youth named Henry...

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...

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

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

Japanese silent film from 1928.

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...

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

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...

A romantic movie based on Chiyoko Shimakura’s hit song of the same name, in which Shimakura herself starred.

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...

After the plans of a group of college students to cheat on their final exams goes awry, they're left to reassess their lives and educations and get...

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

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