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...

In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.

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

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

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

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...

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...

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

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

When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a...

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,...

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

A 1954 film.

In a small Tohoku town, family tensions rise when a sick mother’s care leads to conflict over a mistress joining the household....

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...

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...