Tatsuo Saitō Movies

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

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

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

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

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

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

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of...

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

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

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

The second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the Japanese Coast Guard and G-men. Having caught a suspicious...

A hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment of the Japanese doctor (Sano) who treats her...

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

A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.

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