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...

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.

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

A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start...

Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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...

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...

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

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

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...

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to...

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu...

That Night's Woman

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