Tatsuo Saitō Movies

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.

1939 Japanese movie

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble...

A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off...

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

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...

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

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

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...

Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.

Japanese Warmovie

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...

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the...