Tatsuo Saitō Movies

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

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...

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

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

Set in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge to be friends. But when a youth named Henry...

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

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...

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...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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