Tatsuo Saitō Movies

Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.

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

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...

University friends Ben and Shūichi unknowingly vie for the attention of the beautiful Chieko while on a skiing trip.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.

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

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

In Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise.

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,...

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines, and Tokyo was reduced to a sea of...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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