Tatsuo Saitō Movies

Japanese silent film from 1929.

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

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...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie

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...

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,...

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.

The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When...

Japanese silent film from 1930.

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

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film.

Lost silent film

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...

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Midori (Misora), the adopted daughter of Kinnosuke (Kawamura), a ship carpenter in a port town, was born a good singer. Her mother is dead, her...