Tatsuo Saitō Movies

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

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

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 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...

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

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

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

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

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

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

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

A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.

In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister...

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...